Setting up a control philosophy and testing the process design and control philosophy of the Westland Heating System with multiple scenarios in order to obtain a 'proof of concept'.
The Westland heating system comprises multiple clusters, each with a geothermal heat source and residual heat from the Rijnmond area. Powerspex, together with Rotterdam Engineering, has carried out a system study for the client to arrive at a functional design and a control philosophy for the Westland heating system.
Within this project, Powerspex achieved the following:
1. Designing a control philosophy for WSW
2. Testing the functional design including the control philosophy using PsxCad
3. The testing was carried out using multiple scenarios with both planned and unplanned events.
4. Obtaining a proof of concept of the entire design including controls and management.
The system study provided the customer with insight into how to arrange the network, how to ensure that pumps and/or clusters do not interfere with each other, how robust the system is in the event of calamities and what to take into account for future capacity growth.
And most importantly: what was initially thought 'This idea won't work', turned out to be possible after all, after skilled and creative engineering work by Powerspex and Rotterdam Engineering.
Want to read more about this topic? Check out this article from Warmtenetwerk Westland.
Simulation Engineering/R&D/geothermal
