Comprehensive Study of District Heating (DH) in the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-187
Author(s):  
Abdur Rehman Mazhar ◽  
Shuli Liu ◽  
Ashish Shukla
Keyword(s):  
District Heating ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Comprehensive Study

scholarly journals The growth and nutritional status of healthy Asian children aged 4–40 months living in Sheffield

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Duggan ◽  
L. Harbottle
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Reference Data ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Distribution Of Values ◽  
Asian Children ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Apparently Healthy ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Detailed anthropometric measurements were made on 169 healthy children aged between 4 and 40 months during a comprehensive study of the diet and nutritional status of Asian children (of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin) living in Sheffield. These measurements were used to describe the growth profile of these apparently healthy children and to compare this with both international and UK reference data. The distribution of values for most anthropometric measurements was close to the UK reference data although both boys and girls tended to be slight of build, and girls tended to have relatively smaller head circumferences. Nevertheless, it was concluded that their growth and nutritional status over this age range can be evaluated using standard (UK) growth charts

scholarly journals The Success and Failure of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands: Revisiting Stewart Russell’s Perspective on Technology Choices in Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Matthias Weber
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Research Work ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Combined Heat And Power ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Uk

Stewart Russell’s research work on combined heat and power / district heating (CHP/DH) in the UK was among the first empirical contributions to demonstrate that technological change is not just determined by seemingly objective technical and economic performance characteristics, but rather the result of social choices. His rich conceptual thinking is reconstructed in a coherent framework, and its explanatory power explored by analysing the innovation diff usion paradox of CHP/DH: in spite of very similar technical and economic characteristics, the patterns of innovation and diff usion diff er signifi cantly across countries. To this end, the evolution of CHP/DH in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands is compared. Russell’s ideas can be regarded as a predecessor of recent multi-level approaches to the analysis of socio-technical change. He put much emphasis on studying power relations for explaining the (non-) occurrence of socio-technical change; an issue that is still debated today.

scholarly journals Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint Harvey ◽  
Carl Rhodes ◽  
Sheena J Vachhani ◽  
Karen Williams
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Personal Trainers ◽  
Personal Trainer ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four features: bondage to the organization; payment of rent to the organization; no guarantee of any income; and extensive unpaid and speculative work that is highly beneficial to the organization. The neo-villeiny of the self-employed personal trainer offers the fitness centre all of the benefits associated with hyper flexible work, but also mitigates the detrimental outcomes associated with precarious work. The article considers the potential for adoption of this new form of hyper flexible and precarious work across the broader service sector.

scholarly journals The role of intermediaries in low carbon transitions – Empowering innovations to unlock district heating in the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Bush ◽  
Catherine S.E. Bale ◽  
Mark Powell ◽  
Andy Gouldson ◽  
Peter G. Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
District Heating ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals District Heating Challenges for the UK

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael-Allan Millar ◽  
Neil Burnside ◽  
Zhibin Yu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Load Prediction ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
District Energy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Good Potential ◽  
The Uk

District heating uptake has grown with the increasing need for cleaner and more efficient energy supply. This has resulted in a rising number of new developments signing up to a district heating scheme, typically powered by Combined Heat and Power (CHP) boilers or biomass boilers with supplemental electrical or gas grid connections. These schemes have advanced rapidly in recent years, with much of the research focus targeting lower carbon technologies, improved load prediction and peak demand management. We assess the current status of District Heating Networks (DHNs) in the United Kingdom using published case studies and suggest next steps to improvement. Our findings show that the United Kingdom has good potential for uptake of district energy given the current political climate and government incentives, however significant improvements must be made to further penetrate the heating market.

scholarly journals District Heating in the UK: Prospects for a Third National Programme

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-89
Author(s):  
David J C Hawkey
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Central Government ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
System Planning ◽  
National Programme ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Residual Heat

The UK has seen periodic attempts to develop large district heating (DH) networks to make use of residual heat from industry and power generation. Under concerns about climate change and energy security, DH has recently re-emerged in policy visions for future heat systems with small decentralised combined heat and power (CHP) generators playing a key role in the establishment of such networks. This paper draws on Stewart Russell’s accounts of earlier DH programmes, asking to what extent the reasons he concluded CHP and DH were systematically excluded continue to marginalise the technologies. In spite of governance changes which ostensibly open new opportunities for experimentation, key structural issues challenge the development of decentralised energy, particularly the alignment of the electricity sector to a centralised system and the dependency of local governments with limited capacity on central government. The reluctance of central government to engage in system planning and the failure to integrate policies related to energy production and energy consumption limit the eff ectiveness of support for DH.

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