Ricerc@Sapienza

During the last few years, European Union has supported many energy projects to enhance the role of renewables in the European Countries, in order to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of the residential sectors. In this context, the implementation of the cogeneration plant and district heating seems to be a good solution, especially thanks to the possibility of coupling those systems with renewable sources. In literature, the development of a district heating supplied by Renewable Energy Sources (RES) was investigated by several researches.

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the performance of an algorithm for point extraction from hyperbolic reflections in synthetic and real Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) data. The real radargrams that we considered contain hyperbolic reflections due to the presence, in the surveyed area, of district heating pipelines DN250 (250mm inner diameter pipe). These are buried 88 cm deep in a soil trench, and covered by compacted sand and concrete bricks (behaton pavement).