Background
Our work will be executed in six steps: 1.) A selection of small individual heating boilers will be made with a help of local authorities of the city of Ljubljana. At the moment 35 owners of small individual heating boilers already agreed to participate in this demonstration. 2.) Sensors will be mounted at small individual heating boilers. They include temperature sensors at various places, flow meters for extra light oil and water, detectors of gas, water vapour etc. They will be connected with process module which will then communicate with Central Control Unit (CCU). On the other hand computers and data fusion software will be installed at the CCU. 3.) Next step is to establish communication channels between process modules located at individual heating boilers and CCU. Various channels will be tested (Internet, fax transmission, SMS) and a proper channel will be selected on the basis of the analysis of the reliability. 4.) Now we will be ready to start with monitoring. We will control the performance of each individual heating boiler and its consumption of energy. A 24 h per day service of CCU will be using integrated approach for the analysis of the accumulated data (consumption of oil, produced kW, temperatures) and will intervene immediately when any of the measured quantities will fail to match prescribed ecological standards. With this we will assure the optimal working conditions of individual heating boilers, reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (SO2, CO, CO2, NOx), as well to prevent any accident (fire for instance). Standard protocols for the interventions will be prepared and we will strictly follow them. 5.) Owners of the small individual heating boilers will be regularly informed about the performance of their boilers. A special emphasis will be paid to the ecological impact of our monitoring and control. We hope to raise the public awareness about the problem of the emission of harmful gases. At the end of the present demonstra
Objectives
It is the prime goal of this project to demonstrate how to reduce the consumption of extra light oil and to minimise the emission of CO2, SO2, NOx and small particles that are produced in small individual heating boilers. In view of that it works along the decisions of Kyoto protocol, which demands 8% reduction of greenhouse gas emisisions in European countries. We would also like to reduce the cost of heating, prevent accidents in these heating rooms and to prolonged boiler’s lifetime. We will achieve this goal by establishing a Central Control Unit (CCU) whose mission will be to daily monitor working conditions of heating boilers connected to the CCU. Technologically it is the challenge of this project to apply innovative sensors (like recently developed and patented flux meter) and then by using integrated approach evaluate the accumulated data at the central processing computer. Modern communication channels (Internet, SMS, etc.) will be used for the data transfer as well as to trigger interventions if necessary. To assure economical self-sustainability of the project we would like to demonstrate in this project that ecological as well as economical benefits of such service quickly compensate initial investment. The successful end of this project will also result in the raise of ecological awareness of the general public.
Coordinator: Municipality of Ljubljana
Duration: 01-SEP-2001 to 01-SEP-2003
Total budget: 599,996.00 €
EU contribution: 244,558.00 €
