Local indicators and potential for Electrification of heat with a focus on multi-vector integration including hydrogen

这一博士学位的拟议问题是着眼于这些地方、区域和国家指标，并确定一种方法，以提供关于要部署的适当技术或技术组合的建议，重点放在当地背景下。这位博士生将使用3D-Stock模型与UCL团队密切合作。该模型目前提供了建筑形式的3D表示，以及整个伦敦的建筑信息、年龄和热力特性以及其他与能源相关的数据；其目的是将其扩展到整个英国。这将最终支持整个英国建筑库存的高度细粒度模型，并提供一个管理和组织多条信息的平台，包括来自利益相关者的输入(包括但不限于EDF)，以及来自整个能源系统模型(如UKTM和ESTIM.)的输出。该项目的一个主要成果将是提供候选技术(混合热泵、电动锅炉、AS/GS热泵、H2锅炉和燃料电池、区域供热、单独或中心储热...)的初步评估方法。部署在任何特定地区，以便随后与关键利益攸关方进行讨论。这一阶段可能包括在实验室或现场测试解决方案。学生目标正如现在广泛理解的那样，住宅供热脱碳可能不会有唯一的解决方案，而是多条途径，这取决于从地方到国家的多个层面上的限制和机会的相互作用。一个关键问题将是，在个别技术和成本快速演变的背景下，理解电网、脱碳天然气电网和供热网络之间协同增效的潜力。该项目有可能对英国面临的最重要的战略问题之一产生重大影响。博士学位的总体成果将是：1.技术和系统建议，重点是多向量解决方案，用于住宅热能脱碳，并考虑到伦敦大学学院最近在能源系统建筑方面的工作2。脱碳对英国能源系统韧性的总体潜在影响，3.从电气化与天然气系统(从甲烷到氢气)的增量演化的兼容性的角度分析整个英国的能源系统。

The proposed issue of this PhD is to look at these local, regional and national indicators and to define a methodology to provide recommendations on appropriate technologies or combinations of technologies to be deployed with a focus on the local context. The PhD student will work closely with the UCL team, using the 3D-Stock Model. This model currently provides a 3D representation of built forms, together with construction information, ages and thermal properties, and other energy related data for the whole of London; the intention is to extend it to cover the whole of the UK. This will ultimately support a highly granular model of the whole UK building stock, and provide a platform for managing and organising multiple strands of information including, inputs from stakeholders (including, but not limited to EDF), and output from whole energy systems models such as UKTM and ESTIMO.A major outcome from the project will be a methodology to provide preliminary evaluations of candidate technologies (hybrid heat pumps, electric boilers, AS/GS heat pumps, H2 boilers and fuel cells, district heating, individual or hub heat storage...) to be deployed in any given area, for subsequent discussion with key stakeholders. This phase could include solutions testing, in the lab or in the field.Studentship aimsAs this is now widely understood, there will likely not be one unique solution to the decarbonisation of residential heat, but multiple routes depending on the interplay of constraints and opportunities at multiple levels from local to national context. A key problem will be to understand the potential for synergies between the electricity grid, a decarbonised gas grid, and heat networks, in the context of rapid evolution of individual technologies and costs. The project has the potential to make a significant impact on one of the most important strategic problems facing the UK.The overall outcomes of the PhD will be:1. Technology and system recommendations with focus on multi-vector solutions, for the decarbonisation of residential heat and taking account of recent work at UCL on energy system architecture2. Overall potential impact of decarbonisation on energy system resilience in the UK,3. Analysis of the UK-wide system from the perspective of compatibility of electrification with an incremental evolution of the gas system (from methane to H2).