Online Leakage Attribution to Exclusion Areas Prototype Application

Localisation of leakages within district heating networks is a challenging but highly essential task. In case of a leakage, especially in sudden cases, there occur miscellaneous adverse effects. In any case, the lost medium must be fed back to the network. If the amount of lost medium is too large, it is inevitable to shut down the network. This can be prevented by the use of exclusion areas if these can separate the damaged parts of the network. However, in order to effectively use these exclusion areas, the leakage must be attributed to one or more exclusion areas as quickly as possible.