assess feasibility
Now that a methodology for the optimal sizing and control of integrated biomass - solar thermal district heating schemes has been established, it is appropriate to define the scope in which we may assess the feasibility of a currently installed system within our chosen case study.
An all encompassing feasibility study would examine a whole range of aspects from the three main pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental) plus additional technical aspects that may exert a varying degree of influence on all invested parties. For example, relevant to the focus of this project, social factors may include opposition to; the outsourcing of home-based occupations in conventional fossil fuel energy to external biomass suppliers commonly populated in regions of Scandinavia or further afield; the geographical redistribution of pollutant emissions from conventionally remote power stations to the "breathing zone"; the scale of deforestation and correlative habitat destruction required to maintain a sustainable biomass supply chain; the subjective poor aesthetics of solar thermal paneling in a contrastingly old UK housing infrastructure, and so on.
Within the scope of this student project, we simply did not have the necessary time or available resources to present such a comprehensively well rounded feasibility study, and decided to concentrate on three aspects we independently perceived to be of key significance; environmental feasibility (specifically concerning associated emissions of biomass transportation), financial feasibility and land use feasibility. The methodology required for an accurate application within our chosen case study is now outlined in the remainder of this sub-navigation panel.
An all encompassing feasibility study would examine a whole range of aspects from the three main pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental) plus additional technical aspects that may exert a varying degree of influence on all invested parties. For example, relevant to the focus of this project, social factors may include opposition to; the outsourcing of home-based occupations in conventional fossil fuel energy to external biomass suppliers commonly populated in regions of Scandinavia or further afield; the geographical redistribution of pollutant emissions from conventionally remote power stations to the "breathing zone"; the scale of deforestation and correlative habitat destruction required to maintain a sustainable biomass supply chain; the subjective poor aesthetics of solar thermal paneling in a contrastingly old UK housing infrastructure, and so on.
Within the scope of this student project, we simply did not have the necessary time or available resources to present such a comprehensively well rounded feasibility study, and decided to concentrate on three aspects we independently perceived to be of key significance; environmental feasibility (specifically concerning associated emissions of biomass transportation), financial feasibility and land use feasibility. The methodology required for an accurate application within our chosen case study is now outlined in the remainder of this sub-navigation panel.