Scientific and methodological support of heat supply optimal development and its practical implementation in the Irkutsk region

The purpose of the paper is an integrated transformation of heat supply systems in order to improve their reliability, manageability, efficiency and create comfortable conditions for consumers as well as formation of methodological principles of new modern heat supply systems construction and development of relevant computing tools for optimal planning of heat supply system development and operation. The study employs the methodology of multilevel structuring and decomposition, modern methods of mathematical modeling and optimization, models and methods of the theory of hydraulic circuits and control theory. The promising development directions of centralized and decentralized heat supply are identified. Energy efficient technologies of energy production based on cogeneration are considered. Recommendations on the reconstruction volumes and terms of currently operating and planned for the future heat power facilities arranged by the years for the period until 2023 are approved. Formation mechanisms of stable and favorable conditions of investment attraction are analyzed. We have obtained a comprehensive assessment of the situation with heat supply in the region that reflects the features and problems of the current state, which allowed to outline the rational ways of their elimination.

scientific and methodological support, heat supply system, production and consumption of thermal energy, heat sources, forecast of heat consumption, modernization