The heat plan becomes achievable
A municipality under a planning duty ultimately needs a generator, a network and an operator. CIRCULIS brings these three roles together in one undertaking instead of tendering them one after another.
CIRCULIS is a systems approach for municipalities, districts and commercial sites. It combines the generation of power and heat, their cascaded use, a district heating network, food production and the material loop into one integrated site — so that each stage supplies the next and as little as possible remains unused.
German heat planning legislation obliges municipalities to draw up heat plans — the larger ones sooner, the smaller ones later. The duty exists; where the heat is to come from is another matter. In many places there is neither a network, nor a generator, nor an operator willing to take on both.
At the same time, residual materials are available in those very places that are disposed of rather than used, and waste heat escapes unused. Each of these installations is hard to justify on its own: a combined heat and power plant with no heat customer, a recirculating fish farm buying in its heat, a greenhouse with air conditioning — each possible, each expensive.
CIRCULIS does not address one of these installations but their linkage. The approach describes in what order and through which interfaces the components interact, so that separate undertakings become a site that sustains itself.
The measure of success. An integrated site has succeeded when no stage depends on buying in something that another stage produces itself.
The following description sets out the task each component performs within the whole. The specific interconnection, the design of the stages and the processes from whose interaction the closed loop arises are not the subject of this description.
A municipality under a planning duty ultimately needs a generator, a network and an operator. CIRCULIS brings these three roles together in one undertaking instead of tendering them one after another.
What is disposed of today enters the loop as the input of the next stage. This reduces disposal costs and purchases at the same time — in two places at once.
Electricity, heat, fertiliser and part of the food arise locally. The site stays connected to the grid but depends less on what is happening on it.
Effects on energy, material flows and employment are measured and documented. Funding bodies require this — and the measurement chain is needed for operations in any case.
The sequence is an order of steps, not a timetable. Duration and scope depend on the site, the permitting position and the financing structure.
What residues arise, in what quantity and quality? What heat customers exist, and at what distance? What land and permits are available? Without secured feedstock quantities and without customers, nothing begins.
Sizing the components to the site, the permitting route, corporate and financing structure, participation of the municipality, heat supply and offtake agreements.
Construction in phases — as a rule generation and network first, the further stages afterwards — training of staff and transition to regular operation.
Undertakings of this kind touch on local public services. Participation by the municipality — in the company, through connection agreements or through the citizenry — is therefore not a concession but a precondition of permitting and of acceptance. It is carried forward from the outset.
Proprietor of the brand and the associated know-how, Herisau, Switzerland. It develops the systems approach, supports the site assessment and grants licences.
Construction and operation are carried out through a dedicated company in which the parties — including the municipality — hold interests according to the structure chosen.
Individual components are implemented together with suitably qualified plant builders, operators and research institutions. These are independent undertakings; their technologies belong to them.
Write to us stating the municipality or site, the residue quantities available, possible heat customers and the occasion. We work without a contact form and without a telephone hotline.
This description sets out CIRCULIS at a functional level. The specific interconnection of the components, the design of the heat stages and the processes from whose interaction the closed loop arises are not the subject of this description.
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