Euroméditerranée District Energy Network
A seawater-source district-heating network: two intake pumps and two seawater exchangers feeding three heat pumps, two backup boilers and a stratified thermal store, distributing through two network pumps and a differential-pressure valve to thirty consumer substations. The network is simulated; the city under it is not — every substation sits on its real IGN BD TOPO® building footprint in the Euroméditerranée quarter. It is a demonstration network on open data, not any operator's plant.
What the platform models here
Each family has a behavioural model that the live simulator and the proving twin share, so a dry-run behaves the way the plant does.
- Seawater intake pumps
- Seawater exchangers
- Heat pumps
- Backup boilers
- Stratified thermal store
- Network pumps
- Differential-pressure valve
- Consumer substations
A cold snap asks for more heat than the network was built to deliver
The thirty substations sum to 1,319,287 W/K of heat-loss coefficient. At −4 °C that demands far more than the plant's installed capacity — three heat pumps derated by seawater temperature, two 1,800 kW boilers and a store that can only discharge at 2,000 kW. The supply header sags 21.2 K below its compensation setpoint and every substation downstream starves. You cannot serve everyone; you have to decide who gets trimmed, and be able to show why.
District Peak Shaving
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Carry the network through a cold-snap capacity shortfall without letting the supply header collapse: bring on backup boilers, discharge the store, raise the compensation curve, then stage valve-limit setbacks across the lowest-criticality substations.
- 01Start backup boiler B01
- 02Raise supply compensation curve → +6 K
- 03Duty-engineer confirmation
- 04Stage 1 setback — SST16…SST30 valve limit 70 % (fifteen substations, one command each)
- 05Notify control room
C4 · operational action
Cold Snap Capacity Shortfall
Ambient falls from +2 °C to −4 °C five minutes into a thirty-minute run, on a seeded clock — the same snap, tick for tick, every time it is run.
| Assertion | Baseline | With procedure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply header ≥ 67 °C | 61.63 °C | 72.50 °C | pass |
| Peak capacity shortfall ≤ 23 000 kW | 24 145 kW | 22 419 kW | pass |
| Six largest substations hold ≥ 23 K ΔT | 19.93 K | 27.66 K | pass |
Seventeen commands intercepted on the isolated twin. Note what this does not claim: a 22,419 kW shortfall remains after mitigation. This is peak shaving, not peak solving — the network is genuinely undersized for this snap, and the procedure's job is to hold the header up and triage the load, which the measured numbers show it doing.
What the control room sees
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