Project description
Sustainable geothermal steam heat pump coupled with heat-powered refrigeration
Geothermal heat pumps utilise Earth's internal heat as a renewable source for efficient heating or cooling. The EU-funded GEOSYN project aims to validate an innovative geothermal heat pump combined with a heat-powered refrigeration cycle, both using water as the working fluid. This system optimises geothermal energy for industrial applications, offering flexibility to connect to underground thermal energy storage for faster start-up times. Designed to be adaptable and scalable, it meets various industrial needs, enhancing geothermal energy access and efficiency, and reducing environmental impact and costs. In addition to awareness raising actions for policy makers and citizens, the project achieves industry trust on geothermal heat and cool use in production processes, showing examples and demonstrating benefits of the GEOSYN technology.
Objective
The GEOSYN aim to validate a groundbreaking geothermal steam heat pump coupled with heat-powered refrigeration systems for industrial applications, specifically for the cascading use of heat from deep or shallow rock formations. The solution prioritises environmental sustainability, utilising water as the working fluid in all sub-systems, and anticipates improvements in cost-efficiency for geothermal application developments. The solution aims to facilitate the exploitation of geothermal energy sources in regions with or without significant hydrothermal reservoirs, seamlessly integrated with the industrial context and demonstrating versatility for widespread adoption.
The expected outcome is a substantial increase in the deployment of geothermal resources for heat and cold generation, offering reduced environmental impact and enhanced economic attractiveness compared to the use of fossil fuels or electricity from the grid. The envisioned design is a flexible solution capable of delivering stable and cost-efficient energy tailored to the specific site and application. The solution is planned to be integrated with other renewable sources to enhance power supply reliability and grid stability.
The GEOSYN will act to increase the awareness of the civil society on geothermal energy and will engage with policy makers to include the deployment of geothermal in local, regional and national policies. In addition, it will demonstrate the affordability of geothermal heating and cooling uses for productive processes, with existing examples and demonstration of the benefits of using the GEOSYN technology in industry increasing trust.
The GEOSYN consortium consists of 10 organisations from 5 European countries (Italy, Denmark, France, Norway, Ukraine) representing different levels of geothermal maturity and with extensive experience in the sector, both from the technological and social sciences point of view.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energygeothermal energy
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