Cooperation between Supermarkets and Real Estate Owners; Energy Efficiency and Business Models

Background

Today, there are about 4000 Supermarkets in Sweden, and those account for about 3% of Swedish electricity use. Supermarkets have the potential to reduce overall energy use through delivering heating and air conditioning to stores and neighbouring buildings.

The overall aim of the project is to demonstrate, using theoretical calculations, modelling, energy measurements, monitoring and business model evaluation, that a collaboration for efficient use of heating, cooling and air conditioning between real estate and supermarkets owners can be achievable for both parties.

During the project, at least four case studies are investigated with focus on cooling, heat recovery and air conditioning. The results from the project will lead to the implementation of at least two cases of collaboration between supermarkets and real estate owners. The energy and business models that will be developed during the project will be freely available for the different stakeholders in the project.

Project publications

M.Sc. thesis reports:

• Edwin Andersson, "Cooperation for Heat Recovery: A Case Study on Heat Utilization From a Supermarket Refrigeration System". KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2022. URL: Cooperation for Heat Recovery: A Case Study on Heat Utilization from a Supermarket Refrigeration System

• Filip Josefsson, "Optimizing Energy System in a Supermarket: A case study analysis". KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2022. URL: Optimizing Energy System in a Supermarket: A case study analysis.

• Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, "Heat Export from Supermarkets: Refrigeration Systems Field Measurements and a Techno-economic Analysis". KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2022. URL: Heat Export from Supermarkets: Refrigeration Systems Field Measurements and a Techno-economic Analysis.

• Christ Asadour and Teodor Nymark, "Litteraturstudie - Energieffektivisering av livsmedelsbutiker genom nyttjande av överskottsvärme". KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2023. URL: Litteraturstudie - Energieffektivisering av livsmedelsbutiker genom nyttjande av överskottsvärme

Conference papers:

• Steuer, D., Andersson, E., Josefsson, F., Sawalha, S., Arias, J., "Cooperation for heat recovery from a supermarket's CO₂ refrigeration system". 15th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants, 2022. PDF: Cooperation for heat recovery from a supermarket's CO2 refrigeration system (pdf 1.1 MB)

• Steuer, D., Josefsson, F., Arias, J., Sawalha, S., Optimising a supermarket refrigeration system with heat recovery to minimise operational costs (pdf 932 kB) , 26^th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in Paris, 2023.

• Steuer, D., Almebäck, J., Magnius, R., Arias, J., Sawalha, S., Techno-economic analysis of heat export from supermarket refrigeration systems: field measurements a (pdf 936 kB) , 26^th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in Paris, 2023.

Reports:

• Termens, J., Steuer, D., "Befintliga affärsmodeller mellan livsmedelsbutiker och fastighetsägare för leverans av energi. CIT Renergy (Relivs) & KTH, 2023. Befintliga affärsmodeller samverkan (pdf 1.8 MB)

Relevant publications

External reports:

• Belok, 2020. Samverkan för värmeutvinning från livsmedelsbutiker.  Relivs – Resurseffektiv livsmedelshantering. 2020-01-31. Executed by Josep Termens. 

Journal papers:

• Fabio Giunta and Samer Sawalha, 2021. Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 193. Techno-economic analysis of heat recovery from supermarket’s CO2 refrigeration systems to district heating networks.

• Arnaudo, M., Giunta, F., Dalgren, J., Topel, M., Sawalha, S., and Laumert, B., Heat recovery and power-to-heat in district heating networks – A techno-economic and environmental scenario analysis. Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 185, 2021. 

• Mateu-Royo, C., Sawalha, S., Mota-Babiloni, A., and Navarro-Esbrí, J., High temperature heat pump integration into district heating network.  Vol. 210, 2020. 

• Karampour, M., Mateu-Royo, C. Rogstam, J., and Sawalha, S., Geothermal storage integration into a supermarket's CO2 refrigeration system. , International Journal of Refrigeration. 2019.

• Mazyar Karampout and Samer Sawalha, Energy efficiency evaluation of integrated CO2 trans-critical system in supermarkets: A field measurements and modelling analysis  International Journal of Refrigeration. 2017. 82(10), pp. 470-486. 

Conference papers:

• Raka Adrianto, L., Grandjean, P.-A., and Sawalha, S., Heat Recovery from CO2 Refrigeration System in Supermarkets to District Heating Network  in 13th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference, 2018. 

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