Objective The objective of the project is to demonstrate the technical and economical feasibility of large-scale solar thermal system integration in the brewing industry for the first time. Brewing and malting processes are especially suitable to be supplied by solar thermal systems since basically all required processes are in the temperature range between 50°C and 100°C.Three large-scale solar thermal systems are going to be applied at three different sites: in one drying process of a malting plant, at one mashing process of a brewery and one pasteurizing process of a brewery. The total installed capacity of the three plants is going to be 5.08 MWth, corresponding to 7,270 m² of collector area. Besides the different processes also different climatic zones were chosen for the solar thermal systems in order to evaluate the performance of the plants under different solar radiation conditions. The objective is to have good examples and best practices for the brewing sector which can act as the basis for the large-scale market deployment of the huge potential of the solar thermal source in the whole beverage sector.Special efforts are going to be devoted to an integrated approach combining energy efficiency measures in the brewing and malting processes itself and advanced solar integration concepts, which are adapted to the special requirements of these processes.Special requirements of the type and size of solar thermal systems relate to stagnation behaviour, collector field hydraulics and an intelligent heat storage management in combination with the related batch processes.Based on the operation experience and the monitoring results the so called “Green brewery sector concept” will be developed. This sector concept will serve as basis for a broad European wide training and dissemination programme, which is going to take place for the energy manager of all breweries of the HEINEKEN group, solar experts and energy consultants. Fields of science engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic zonesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringheat engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologysolar radiationengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energysolar thermal Keywords . Programme(s) FP7-ENERGY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy Topic(s) ENERGY.2011.4.1-2 - Low/Medium temperature solar thermal systems for industrial process heat Call for proposal FP7-ENERGY-2011-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator AEE - INSTITUT FUR NACHHALTIGE TECHNOLOGIEN Address Feldgasse 19 8200 Gleisdorf Austria See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Oststeiermark Administrative Contact Christoph Brunner (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tweede weteringplantsoen 21 1017 ZD Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Herman Van De Bergh (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data GEA BREWERY SYSTEMS GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Heinrich huppmann strasse Kitzingen See on map Administrative Contact Ludwig Scheller (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data SUNMARK AS Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sankt nicolai gade Sonderborg See on map Administrative Contact Torben Frederiksen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data
