Objective The objective of the project is to establish methods and generic engineering tools, to quantify and improve both the energy efficiency and environmental friendliness of industrial processes. A major concern is the interrelationship between these two goals. Techniques for energy synthesis in industrial processes have stressed the necessity of having a synthetic approach. These prove to be very efficient to propose process modifications and to discover the bottlenecks of industrial processes. The key idea of the project is to analyze the possibilities for these techniques to tackle use of energy together with environmental concerns. Two case studies from two representative major industries will be examined: one brewing industry (in the UK). The role of these two industrial partners involved in the project is to provide the data for the case studies and verify that the solutions proposed are suitable for industrial applications. 1. Data acquisition and problem definition. 2. Testing of the energy synthesis methods to tackle energy integration together with environmental constraints. If pollutants emission reduction, when saving energy, has not been shown, other aspects will be analyzed, like : - the possibility of using energy savings to finance environmental process enhancements; - the use of process integration to make process enhancemet possible: for instance the use of excess energy for concentration or the treatment of pollutants; - the use of utility systems and the integration of all types of energy (thermal and mechanical) to make the enhancements technically feasible. They aim to set-up rules for integrating pollution reduction techniques together with rules for energy savings. 3. Development of generic computer tools that will use optimization strategies with environmental constraints formulated in a mathematical form. A final task of the project is to develop a new concept: the cost break even (CBE) point. This corresponds to the cost of the environmental impact that might be accepted by the proposed solution. If the environmental cost is higher than the CBE, new techniques will have to be used and new investments will have to be considered. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Programme(s) FP3-JOULE 2 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040201 - Industry Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE EU contribution No data Address B 6,campus du sart tilman, b6a 4000 Liege Belgium See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Atkins Wootton Jeffreys Consultants Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Woodcote grove ashley road KT18 5BW Epsom See on map Total cost No data Centre Technique de l'Industrie des Papiers, Cartons et Celluloses France EU contribution No data Address Domaine universitaire 38020 Grenoble See on map Total cost No data