
Due to the high cost of the infrastructure this can be of high importance for protecting the investment. A pressure surge due to a disruption in operation or bad water quality in either of the connected systems is isolated to that particular system. The heat exchanger also prevents cascading failures and potential damages if something goes wrong it either of the connected systems. This further results in high system safety as well as flexibility in terms of temperature and pressure levels. The facility receives up to 400,000 tonnes of waste. The development of this infrastructure is fundamental to the security and advancement of environmentally sustainable resource recovery solutions for NSW. The heat exchanger ensures that both sides have independent pressure conditions and there will be no water contamination transferred between the two systems. Veolia has developed a new general solid waste rail transfer facility at an existing industrial site in Banksmeadow, in Sydney’s south. The indirect energy transfer station uses a heat exchanger to physically separate the two involved systems. For space conditioning both principles can be applied, for domestic hot water preparation indirect systems are required, except in specific cases. To achieve this task there are two basic principles, indirect and direct connections. It can be from a thermal source to a distribution network or it can be from the distribution network to the consumer. The main purpose of energy transfer stations is to move thermal energy from one place to another and adapt the conditions from the primary side to the secondary side requirements. For the energy transfer station to achieve optimal operation the district energy system needs to be able to supply sufficient flow, temperature and differential pressure for the energy transfer station to fulfill the demands of the energy user. The energy transfer station further marks the end of the district heating network and the beginning of the consumer installation, it is the logical location of the energy meter for billing purposes.Ī well functioning energy transfer station is the key to energy efficient operation of both the building installation and the district energy network. Independent on the size of the energy transfer station the basic functionality is the same: to adapt the supply conditions, temperature and pressure, to the needs of the heat consumer. Energy transfer stations can have many different configurations and come in wide range of capacities, capable of supplying single family house to large city quarters. In district energy systems the interface between the distribution network and the energy user, like for example a building, is called an energy transfer station.
