Enhancing of energy efficiency of heating systems of residential buildings

Project author: National Mining University, Department of Power Supply Systems, Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine)

Project objective: Developing of systemic approaches and standard technical solutions to design efficient heating systems of residential buildings

Project background: Nowadays at the scale of Europe, fossil energy is mainly used in residential buildings for two usages which are space heating and Domestic Hot Water production. Such a large building stock needs innovative, efficient and cost-effective solutions. Systemic approaches need to be developed which integrate the most promising cost-effective technologies and materials. There is a need to work out solutions that include energy use through combination of innovative and renewable energy sources at building level; exploitation of heat recovery for water and air, enabling to adapt the system to the end-user behaviour without losing control of the global efficiency of the system.�