Project description
Reducing energy demand in high-temperature process industries
High-temperature heating processes in industries such as ceramics, asphalt, and aluminium production are important. However, they are also energy-intensive, contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Traditional heating methods often suffer from inefficiencies, long processing times, and limited controllability, hindering industrial productivity and sustainability efforts. In this context, the EU-funded METAWAVE project proposes a solution: the integration of advanced microwave-based heating systems. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, METAWAVE will demonstrate superior performance across key metrics like process efficiency, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions. This initiative holds the promise of not only enhancing industrial operations but also contributing to the broader goal of reducing energy demand and advancing sustainability in process industries.
Objective
METAWAVE proposes the introduction of advanced microwave-based heating systems in high-temperature heating processes. Its key outcome is the demonstration of these systems in three industrial sectors (ceramics, asphalt, aluminium) achieving superior performance. Process efficiency, energy use, GHG emissions and productivity are the main metrics that define the positioning of the project results on the industrial innovation atlas. The advantages of higher system efficiency, shorter process time and process controllability have the potential of bringing the twin-transition one step closer, helping the process industries to reduce the energy demand and leverage their overall flexibility. Further optimisation requires feedstock enhancement with novel nanostructured additives, waste-based refractories for advanced process monitoring and controls as well as robust modelling and predictive functions for the Process Digital Twin. METAWAVE will target seamless integration of renewable energy sources to power the microwave-based heating systems through Virtual Power Plant (VPP) configurations, accompanied by an energy management system based on data-driven modelling optimisation and alongside the investigation of industrial symbiosis developing a detailed Hub 4 Circularity (H4C) roadmap. A complete assessment of the techno-economic feasibility of the novel technologies and their environmental impact will be conducted paving the way towards their up-scale and commercial adoption.
METAWAVE will mobilise different stakeholders into new ways of operating process industries through capacity building, open science, and new forms of sustainable economic activity with an emphasis on sustainable fuels and feedstocks.
7 SMEs along with 6 RTDs, 2 universities and 3 large enterprises work together to achieve 420 GWh energy reduction, over 95ktCO2 averted and more than 19% productivity increase yielding total revenues of more than 230M€ and the creation of more than 900 new jobs by 2032.
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- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrypost-transition metals
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringceramics
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50018 Zaragoza
Spain
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Participants (18)
41121 Modena
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341 00 HALKIDA
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36410 Porrino
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31226 Peine
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26370 Navarrete
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41300 La Rinconada
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1030 SCHAERBEEK
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LT-01108 Vilnius
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41058 Vignola
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3001 Leuven
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1120 WIEN
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33100 Tampere
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1040 BRUSSELS
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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44600 ALCANIZ
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50008 Zaragoza
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151 25 MAROUSI
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341 00 Chalkis
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3977 Granges
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