HYDROVAR® equipped circulating pumps from Vogel Pumps provide ideal heat distribution for Vienna

29/09/2005

More than 400 circulating pumps with HYROVAR® control units from Vogel Pumps are responsible for an efficient heat distribution of the district heating network of Vienna.
Fernwaerme Wien
At 1969 the new established FERNWAERME WIEN GmbH (former Heizbetriebe Wien) received an order to ensure the district heat supply of the city from the community of Vienna. Furthermore an adequate disposal of the communal waste should be assumed by using the thermally waste treatment plant Spittelau, which was under construction at this time.
Today the successive expanding district heating network is supplied by in total 10 production plants with a total capacity of heat energy of more than 2.500 MW and is due to the pipeline length of nearly 1000 km one of the biggest in Europe.
More than 230.000 flats and approx. 4.900 industrial consumers are supplied with heating energy for room heating and for water heating.

The underground piping system
The narrow piping network for heat distribution in Vienna is mainly installed under ground in a depth of 1 up to 15 meters or above ground. Currently the length of the complete pipe work is approximately 940 km.
The district heating network is reaching all districts of Vienna and the pipes are partly walk able. At this system, also named as integrated network, there are connected all consumers – flats, schools, hospitals and all other official buildings – and all producers, which are again heat up the water in the pipe work cooled down by the consumers.

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