chatelot16 wrote:
so you have to look for customers a little further to sell heat ... and the pipes are expensive
is there any other house nearby that could be interested in this heat? even if the length of the pipe is not immediately profitable for energy, but is justified to be sure to sell more than 70% of the heat
1) You will be surprised (or not?) To learn that this project first generated an outcry from residents. We had a rather stormy meeting, where we were criticized for causing the loss of value of the houses in a fairly close subdivision ...
Noise, danger of explosion, smell, everything is there. We had to make precise studies to simulate the blast wave in the case of an "explosion" [in fact, not being "closed", a methanization station does not explode; it's just a big inflammation, which stops very quickly and has no effect beyond I don't know what distance, quite small; this has been simulated; the tanks themselves, in the absence of O², do not ignite; you can shoot it with "tracer" bullets].
For odors, we had to build an unloading building in depression, with very powerful ventilation, extraction and air treatment ...
The group is in an over-soundproof box and should not be heard at 100 m. Scooters will vroom vroom in the neighborhood, but that's something else, it's their children!
It is extremely hard to carry out such a project in peri-urban areas. We start to succeed after 6 years!
We had questions, following the ICPE file, of I no longer know which government department on the benzene content of emissions and I no longer know which cyclic compounds by the cogé engine. Knowing that we are very close to the highway on which a good part of road traffic passes from Northern and Eastern Europe to France / Spain !!! Must we believe that these thousands of trucks emit Eau de Cologne ????
Hard hard !!
2) But here again: subdivision = intermittent need (winter), not responding to our wish for recovery; the adjoining factory was a much better customer, more regular, even if we have small problems on weekends and holidays ... But compared to the heating of a housing estate, these small interruptions are peanuts! We therefore favored this option. Suddenly, we can no longer supply the subdivision during the week! So you can't "pipe", it wouldn't be profitable - if people wanted to!
I am in a "perfectionist" approach, to promote these few niches ... If I find a feasible idea!
To tell you how far our thoughts go: we thought of teaming up with a car wash station, which works fully on Saturdays!