Fjärrenergi eller geoenergi? En fallstudie för Gävle sjukhus.
2023 (Swedish) Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Sustainable development The essay/thesis is partially on sustainable development according to the University's criteria Alternative title
District or geo energy? a case study on Gävle hospital. (English)
Abstract [en]
This report is a case study about geothermal energy system and its application forthe hospital in the city of Gävle. Today the hospital uses district heating and -coolingas their main energy source.There is a report about the hospital in the city of Umeå where geothermal energyhas been installed. Both hospitals have the same need when it comes to using heatand cooling all year round. The hospital in Umeå installed geothermal energy sothat they got a less vulnerable energy system. The emissions of CO2 were also lowereddue to this installation.This report aims to answer the following research question.How geothermal energy can be a option of choice for the hospital I the city ofGävle?The report presents a literature study on subject close to this research question. Focusfor the report is to find out if increased electricity consumption is better than usinglocal district heating- and cooling. The report from the geothermal installation inUmeå has on big difference and that is from which fuels the district heating is produced.In Gävle the energy comes from biomass which gives that the emission factoris almost zero.The calculations and modelling are performed in Excel and the results presented ingraphs.The results are positive both from an economical view and environmental perspective.If the total electricity price doesn’t increase more than 36% per year then geothermalenergy is more cost effective. Looking at the emissions of CO2 equivalentswith an emission factor of 90.4 kg per MWh electricity the COP-factor should notbe lower than 7.5. If that can be reached, then geothermal energy performs betterthan district heating- and cooling.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 2023. , p. 33
Keywords [en]
Heat pump, Geo-energy, district heating and cooling.
National Category
Energy Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-40355 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-40355 DiVA, id: diva2:1708755
External cooperation
Roland Forsberg Sweco
Subject / course Energy systems
Educational program Energy systems – bachelor’s programme (in eng)
Presentation
2022-06-01, Högskolan i Gävle hus 11, Kungsbäcksvägen 47, 801 76 Gävle, Gävle, 10:30 (Swedish)
Supervisors
Examiners
2023-05-032022-11-062023-07-11 Bibliographically approved