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Smart Integration of Waste and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Heat Upgrade in the Industry

Project description

Technologies for sustainable heat systems

Novel innovations play a vital role in enhancing sustainability and efficiency across European and global industries. Consequently, fostering and backing innovators and startups could result in substantial growth. The EU-funded SUSHEAT project aims to create and validate three groundbreaking enabling technologies. These innovations promise to deliver both a significant and sustainable heat upgrade to the industry and introduce a novel, intelligent integration of waste and recycling. The technologies are high-temperature heat pumps, a phase-change, bio-inspired thermal energy storage system, and a control and integration twin system. Together, they will facilitate a heating upgrade, enabling adaptable heat delivery and efficient waste heat recovery while also granting access to renewable energy sources.

Objective

SUSHEAT develops and validates, up to TRL 5, 3 novel enabling technologies: high-temperature heat pump (HT-HP), Phase Change Material (PCM) bio-inspired Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system, and Control & Integration Twin (CIT) system; for heat upgrade in top-level labs. It will attain an efficient heat upgrade up to 150-250 °C thanks to the use the innovative Stirling-based HT-HP, working with hellium and enlarging the industrial exploitability of heat upgrade systems, reaching a COP up to 2.8 for temperature ratios of 1.2. The integration of innovative TES will ensure a reliable, flexible, and customizable heat delivery with full decoupling from any waste heat recovery and renewables availability. Moreover, its CIT will provide user-friendly tools and a digital twin for the control system and advising industrial stakeholders, based on smart decision-making algorithms.
SUSHEAT will bring an effective self-assessment of the most suited heat upgrade system integration including not only its key enabling components but, beyond, also leveraging on off-the-self RES-based units, particularly solar thermal collectors even enlarging the feasibility of Concentrating Solar Power systems that can extend its operation working at low temperature.
Two case-studies are replicated for validation at TRL5, and 4 additional cases are analysed in-depth to cover other sectors as Pulp & Paper, Beverages, Petrochemical, Textile & leather and basic metals.
By developing industry-focused self-assessment tools, and directly engaging different industrial stakeholders, SUSHEAT will contribute to identify the target industrial processes and sites which would benefit from the concept, rising awareness of various heat upgrade benefits within the industry and providing solutions to maximize the industrial efficiency while contributing to the sector’s decarbonization, reducing the GHG emissions up to 145 gCO2/kWh (excluding solar contribution and based on EU 2020 intensity and the use NG).

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA
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€ 463 125,00
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CALLE BRAVO MURILLO 38 PLANTA 7
28015 MADRID
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Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 463 125,00

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