AUTHOR=Talebi Behrang , Mirzaei Parham A. , Bastani Arash , Haghighat Fariborz 

TITLE=A Review of District Heating Systems: Modeling and Optimization

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Built Environment

VOLUME=Volume 2 - 2016

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/built-environment/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2016.00022

DOI=10.3389/fbuil.2016.00022

ISSN=2297-3362

ABSTRACT=The ever-increasing demand for heating in different sectors, along with more preventative regulations on greenhouse emissions, has forced different countries to seek new alternative to heat buildings such as District Heating System (DHS). Although the traces of district heating systems can be observed over the centuries, it was not widely implemented until last two decades when the DHS become a method to design more green and energy efficient way for heating buildings. This paper tries to review the state of the art in modeling different components of the district heating systems and state the advantages as well as limitation of each method. Also, different methods used for the optimization of the DHSs have been reviewed.