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District Heating in Northern Europe – what can the UK learn?
District heating still only makes up around 2% of the UK energy market which is much lower than other parts of Europe (particularly Northern Europe) as can seen in the table below: Country % of citizens served by district heating
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Use of lower flow and return temperatures in district heating
District heating schemes make use of underground pre-insulated pipes to connect the various buildings on the site to a centralised heat source. The pre-insulated pipes are designed to maintain the water temperature when in transit (avoiding heat losses to improve
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Benefits of District Heating
A district heating network has a central heat source supplying heating water and / or domestic hot water to two or more separate buildings on the site. This heat source will then be connected to the various buildings in the
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Benefits of dual and quad core pre-insulated pipe
At Mibec we supply a wide range of pre-insulated pipe products from leading manufacturers like Rehau, Microflex or our own Mibec DHP pipe. Pre-insulated pipe is typically used to form district heating networks and are specially designed to maintain the
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What size of pre-insulated pipe do I need?
Pre-insulated pipe is typically used to form either district heating networks or connect a building to a remote heat source in smaller A-to-B projects. This type of product is specially designed to maintain the water temperature (for hot water and
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How is pre-insulated pipe used to form district heating networks?
A district heating network has a heat source supplying heating water and / or domestic hot water to two or more separate buildings on the site. This central heat source will then be connected to the various buildings in the
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What sort of building projects are most suitable for shared heating?
Any shared heating scheme is centred around the concept of a site utilising one large heat source running very efficiently, rather than each building or property having separate smaller ones running less efficiently – the idea being to reduce overall
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Which Mibec pre-insulated pipes are best for Commercial RHI projects?
The RHI or Renewable Heat Incentive, is a government backed scheme designed to encourage the use of renewable technologies, in both the Domestic and Non-Domestic Sector. The RHI will provide finance in the form of a tariff scheme, which will
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What is District Heating?
This video from Rehau explains it all!
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Lifting the lid on an HIU
Heat Interface Units (also sometimes known as Heat Boxes and Consumer Interface Units) basically fulfils the same function as a gas boiler in a property when used as part of a communal heating network. Each home or apartment has its
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What exactly is a HIU?
At Mibec we sell a range of Heat Interface Units (HIUs) including our brand new one stop HIU solution the Hiper II HIU. It’s fully WRAS and KIWA approved with fantastic results in the BESA test. This one unit offers a brilliant single heating
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Integrating district heating with renewable energy sources
District heating is centred on the concept of a site utilising one large heat source running very efficiently, rather than each building having separate smaller ones running less efficiently; the idea being to reduce overall CO2 emissions and save on
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