Abstract

A district energy sharing system (DESS) comprises a thermal energy circuit which circulates and stores thermal energy in water, at least one client building thermally coupled to the circuit and which removes some thermal energy from the circuit ("thermal sink") and/or deposits some thermal energy into the circuit ("thermal source"), and at least one thermal server plant that can be thermally coupled to external thermal sources and/or sinks (e.g. a geothermal ground source) and whose function is to maintain thermal balance within the DESS.

IPC Classes  ?

• F24D 10/00 - District heating systems
• F24H 4/00 - Fluid heaters characterised by the use of heat pumps
• F25B 27/02 - Machines, plants or systems, using particular sources of energy using waste heat, e.g. from internal-combustion engines
• F25B 30/00 - Heat pumps