Overview of F|Heat
F|Heat is composed of several core components that work together to facilitate energy planning:
F|Heat.map: Manages data related to buildings and roads, focusing on the visualization and analysis of heat planning data.
F|Heat.net: Focuses on designing and visualizing heating networks, including cost estimations.
F|Heat.tec: Aggregates and visualizes annual heat demands, network areas, and supports storage calculations.
These components are provided together in a package, whereby each system component covers a sub-area of the planning and includes different development stages and will go through them in the future (see table in Development Roadmap).
F|Heat.map
F|Heat.map is responsible for the procurement, enrichment, aggregation, and visualization of building and road data in compliance with federal guidelines. It allows for:
Automated process based on NRW’s data structure.
Additional loading of the 2022 census data
Visualisation of heat density on building blocks and as heat line density
F|Heat.net
F|Heat.net handles the conceptual design, layout, and visualization of heating networks. It includes:
Design of radial heating networks with specific flow temperatures.
F|Heat.tec
F|Heat.tec aggregates and visualizes annual heat demand data and network areas. It provides tools for:
Heating demand calculation as an hourly annual curve and an ordered load profile.
Development Roadmap
Release version 0.1.0
Component |
Release version 0.1.0 |
|---|---|
F|Heat.map |
Procurement, enrichment, aggregation and visualisation of building and street data in accordance with federal guidelines for heat planning. |
F|Heat.net |
Design (radial) heating network with flow temperatures of 80°C (max.) and 65°C (min.). Specification of costs for pipe construction (without civil engineering costs). |
F|Heat.tec |
Aggregation and visualisation of the annual heat demand of the designed grid area (incl. simultaneity) as annual values. |
Version 1.0.0
Component |
Version 1.0.0 |
|---|---|
F|Heat.map |
Expansion to other federal states, possibly Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein. Mapping of potentials: Areas for ground-mounted solar thermal energy, geothermal energy, water thermal energy, underground reservoirs. Determination and visualisation of the “socio-economically best solution” as supply areas in the municipality under consideration. |
F|Heat.net |
Improved network design (dimensioning and routing). |
F|Heat.tec |
(automated) heat storage calculation and improvements for load profiles VDI 4655 |
Future version(s)
Component |
Future version(s) |
|---|---|
F|Heat.map |
Automated demand modelling of buildings in the planning region. |
F|Heat.net |
Intermeshed grids, multiple feeders/prosumers, substitutions/different temperature levels, anergy grids. |
F|Heat.tec |
Various heat storage options and suggestions for storage locations. |
F|Heat.ai |
Online interaction with the user to develop the system by prompting the user to provide information. |