The HeatMineDH Explorer (https://cities.ait.ac.at/heatminedh/) aims to facilitate the integration of low-grade heat sources into district heating networks. It is a WebGIS application designed to visualize and explore waste heat potential from diverse sources, including industrial and urban wastewater, solar-thermal and geo-thermal. Utilizing automatic GIS solutions and literature data, it converts open data, such as building area and OpenStreetMap tags, into heat availability estimates. The tool employs correlation and calculation factors, leveraging readily available data like floor space and revenue, to estimate waste heat potential across specific industrial sectors. For unconventional low-temperature urban heat sources, such as refrigeration from supermarkets and data centers, a semi-automatic QGIS plugin is used. Users and companies can also contribute their own heat information to enrich the data. For more information on methodology, go to Methodology section.


 

The HeatMineDH Explorer is built on previous projects: MEMPHIS and MEMPHIS 2.0, previously called “Waste Heat Explorer" (see: Former "Waste Heat Explorer"), 

It was co-developed with funding from: 

  • the International Energy Agency (IEA) District Heating and Cooling Programme (Annex XIII and XIV projects MEMPHIS and MEMPHIS 2.0), and 
  • the LIFE Programme (heatMineDH under grand number 101120948), more information here: LIFE-2022-CET-DH  


Since these projects had different focus areas, the heat sources analyzed vary between the cities. 

In the current version of the tool, the following cities are available:

Croatia

    • Vukovar (HeatMineDH)
    • Karlovac (HeatMineDH)

Italy

    • Milan (HeatMineDH)
    • Trento (MEMPHIS/2.0)
    • Bolzano (MEMPHIS/2.0)
    • Ospitaletto (MEMPHIS/2.0)

Poland

    • Szczecin (HeatMineDH)
    • Barlinek (HeatMineDH)

Germany

    • Göttingen (HeatMineDH and MEMPHIS/2.0)
    • Brunswick (HeatMineDH)

Austria

    • Graz (MEMPHIS/2.0)

Memphis 2.0 Waste Heat Explorer

HeatMineDH Explorer