Project description
Hydrogen technologies for decarbonisation of industrial heating processes
Hydrogen combustion for decarbonisation of melting and heating processes in energy-intensive industries requires the adaption and redesign of technical equipment and infrastructure. In this context, the EU-funded HyInHeat project aims to integrate hydrogen as a fuel for high-temperature industrial heating processes through efficient hydrogen combustion systems in the aluminium and steel sectors. The project will redesign and modify the heating process itself, supported by simulation methods enhancing digitalisation along the value chain to increase energy efficiency and reduce the future hydrogen demand of the processes. HyInHeat will implement the developed technology in eight demonstrations in technical centres and industrial plants and perform test trials complemented by industrial case studies.
Objective
The main objective of HyInHeat is the integration of hydrogen as fuel for high temperature heating processes in the energy intensive industries. While some of the equipment is already presented as hydrogen-ready, the integration of hydrogen combustion in heating processes still needs adoption and redesign of infrastructure, equipment and the process itself.
HyInHeat realizes the implementation of efficient hydrogen combustion systems to decarbonize heating and melting processes of the aluminium and steel sectors, covering almost their complete process chains. To reach this overarching objective within the project, furnace and equipment like burners or measurement and control technology but also infrastructure is redesigned, modified and implemented in eight demonstrators at technical centres and industrial plants. Besides hydrogen-air heating, oxygen-enriched combustion and hydrogen-oxyfuel heating is implemented to boost energy efficiency and to decrease the future hydrogen fuel demand of the processes. This might result in a total redesign of the heating process itself which will be supported by simulation methods enhancing digitalisation along the value chain.
Since critical production processes are converted, it is a fundamental requirement to maintain product quality and yield. Priority is also given to the refractory lining to prove sustainability. From an environmental perspective, new concepts for NOx emission measurement in hydrogen combustion off-gas are developed. Material flow analysis and life cycle analysis methods will support the comprehensive cross-sectorial evaluation, which allows the determination of the potential for the implementation of hydrogen heating processes in energy intensive industry.
With these activities, HyInHeat contributes to the objectives of decreasing CO2 emission of the processes while increasing energy efficiency in a cost competitive way keeping NOx emission levels and resource efficiency at least at the same level.
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52062 Aachen
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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20018 San Sebastian
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20133 Milano
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90014 Oulu
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48960 Galdacano
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20730 Azpeitia
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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7491 Trondheim
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971 25 Lulea
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181 81 Lidingo
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82049 Pullach I.Isartal
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28020 Madrid
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38341 VOREPPE CEDEX
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41515 Grevenbroich
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61380 Oxeloesund
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90570 Oulu
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08034 Barcelona
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48910 Sestao
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20212 Olaberria
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33418 Gozon
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1140 Bruxelles / Brussel
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79183 Waldkirch
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01458 Ottendorf-Okrilla
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8601 Mo I Rana
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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151 25 MAROUSI
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48950 Erandio Bizkaia
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1120 Wien
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20092 Cinisello Balsamo
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2289 DC Rijswijk
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2289 DC Rijswijk
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CH62 3PH Bromborough
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