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THERMOSS project “BUILDING AND DISTRICT Thermal Retrofit and Management Solutions”

THERMOSS is an on-going research THERMOSS SOLUTION designed for prosumers (producers
project which began in September THERMOSS focuses on 6 main and consumers of energy), enabling
2016 and is funded by the European technologies, to be installed alone, the exchange of heat in two
Commission Horizon 2020 in combination, or with solar thermal directions. Real time optimisation
programme. The project gathers 15 panels. The electric heat pump (1) algorithms and control strategies
partners from 8 different European is the most common THERMOSS will also be developed and deployed
countries, coordinated by Exergy. technology. It uses an electric motor at the sites concurrently with the
to extract heat from the outside air hardware.
GOALS OF THE PROJECT and warm the house or hot water for
The main goals of the project are to the taps. Heat pumps have higher DEMONSTRATION
produce an outstanding contribution efficiency than conventional gas THERMOSS technologies were
to the EU-wide deployment of boilers, which only use the heat from first validated using the district
advanced technologies for heating gas combustion. Due to the lower heating & cooling experimental
and cooling, enhance the energy price of gas compared with electricity, network provided by the CEA-INES
efficiency of residential buildings and a convenient combination in most laboratory. After the laboratory
facilitate their connection to district European countries is the hybrid tests, the THERMOSS technology
heating and cooling networks. To do version (2). The hybrid heat pump and associated optimisation will
so, THERMOSS is: selects electricity or gas according to be deployed in representative
• ensuring an efficient match the COP (coefficient of performance) pilots, showing the potential
– an indicator of efficiency that for replicability. At four different
between supply and demand changes with external temperature. locations (Southampton, Portsmouth,
of energy through real-time Another type of heat pump uses the Riga and San Sebastian) we will
management of thermal energy absorption cycle. The gas absorption deploy our technologies to prove
• increasing the efficiency of heat pump (3), uses gas as its source that THERMOSS solutions can be
residential building thermal but generates heat more efficiently effectively applied to most buildings,
retrofitting through advanced than a gas boiler can. The micro CHP leading to savings of up to 30% in
heating and cooling technologies unit with solid oxide fuel cell (4) uses primary energy consumption! l
• sharpening the construction gas to produce electricity and heat at
and energy industry awareness the same time, saving the user from Contact information
by providing an open access to purchasing electricity from the grid,
a heating & cooling technology whilst also warming the home. These Project ID: 723562
database to promote the technologies are installed both in Website: www.thermoss.eu
deployment of the most effective individually central heated buildings Start date: September 2016
solutions and district heating networks. For the Duration: 42 months
latter case, the Heat Interface Unit Contact: Federica Fuligni
• demonstrating a high potential (5) will be also deployed, providing a Contact email:
of replication throughout heat exchanger with higher control federicafuligni@exergy-global.com
Europe, allowing a large market capabilities to reduce heat losses.
introduction of the selected The bi-directional substation (6) is
THERMOSS solutions before 2025

San Sebastian demo site: 90 m2 of solar thermal panels have been deployed. They will work in combination with
the existing systems and the new heat pumps, to warm up the district heating ring.

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