City blood: A visionary infrastructure solution for household energy provision through water distribution networks

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dc.contributor.authorKaraca, Ferhat
dc.contributor.authorCamci, Fatih
dc.contributor.authorRaven, Paul Graham
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-27T10:15:45Z
dc.date.available2014-01-27T10:15:45Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to expand current thinking about the future of energy and water utility provision by presenting a radical idea: it proposes a combined delivery system for household energy and water utilities, which is inspired by an analogy with the human body. It envisions a multi-functional infrastructure for cities of the future, modelled on the human circulatory system. Red blood cells play a crucial role as energy carriers in biological energy distribution; they are suspended in the blood, and distributed around the body to fuel the living cells. So why not use an analogous system – an urban circulatory system, or “city blood” – to deliver energy and water simultaneously via one dedicated pipeline system? This paper focuses on analysing the scientific, technological and economic feasibilities and hurdles which would need to be overcome in order to achieve this idea. We present a rationale for the requirement of an improved household utility delivery infrastructure, and discuss the inspirational analogy; the technological components required to realise the vignette are also discussed. We identify the most significant advance requirement for the proposal to succeed: the utilisation of solid or liquid substrate materials, delivered through water pipelines; their benefits and risks are discussed.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationFerhat Karaca, Fatih Camci and Paul Graham Raven. City blood: A visionary infrastructure solution for household energy provision through water distribution networks. Energy, Volume 61, 1 November 2013, Pages 98–107en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0360-5442
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8168
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsOpen access article
dc.subjectWater and energy distributionen_UK
dc.subjectIntegrated utility infrastructuresen_UK
dc.subjectHydrogen carrieren_UK
dc.subjectEmerging technologiesen_UK
dc.subjectFutures infrastructuresen_UK
dc.titleCity blood: A visionary infrastructure solution for household energy provision through water distribution networksen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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