Wood Boiler Central Plant

The wood boiler central plant is a large-Scale wood boiler attached to the district heating network. It converts wood into useful heat.

Attribute	Description	Standard value	Unit	Data type
deployment	If set to ‘true’, the technology will be considered in the energy system model (this does not necessarily mean it will be used). Only relevant for optimisation.	False	—	bool
kW_th_max	Maximum thermal power output	inf	kW	str
hv_wood_MJpkg		15	MJ/kg	float
eta	Efficiency of the wood boiler	0.85	—	float
co2_intensity	Carbon-dioxide intensity of technology output (annual average value).	0.027	kg CO2/kWh	float
lifetime	Expected lifetime of technology before replacement is required.	25	years	int
interest_rate	Interest rate for computing levelised costs (if required).	0.025	—	float
capex	CAPEX cost of technology per unit of capacity.	2000	CHF/kW	float
maintenance_cost	OPEX cost of technology per unit of capacity.	1.26	CHF/kW/year	float

The relationship between the in- and outflows is given by

\[\mathtt{v\_h\_wbcp} = \mathtt{eta} \cdot \mathtt{u\_wd\_wbcp}\]

The symbols and names of the flows are

u_wd_wbcp	Inflow Wood
v_h_wbcp	Outflow Heat