Project description
Liquefied natural gas: a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to cooling
Refrigeration and air conditioning account for nearly 25 % of the total electrical energy spent in Europe. The EU-funded LNGCOLD project will tap into another source of free cooling: liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG, natural gas that has been cooled down below -162 °C to become liquid, is an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. One m3 of LNG contains around 600 times more energy than natural gas in its gaseous form, making this form of gas an attractive energy source for transport. LNGCOLD will develop innovative, low-cost technology to recover the largely unused energy available at LNG terminals during the regasification process. The technology will be brought to a high level of maturity (TRL 6).
Objective
Cost-efficient and environment friendly provision of cold for industry, food handling, shipbuilding, and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) fuelled trucks is a rapidly growing market opportunity. Electrical refrigeration and air-conditioning consume almost 25% of the electrical energy in Europe, a tremendous saving potential and attractive business opportunity for new technologies. Eco ice Kälte GmbH develops technologies to exploit this attractive market potential, to generate significant growth and with this contribute to achieving the climate targets. One very promising approach results from the globally rising use of LNG as energy source, since a huge cold capacity at -162°C is stored in LNG, which is hitherto completely wasted during the regasification by heat exchange with ambient air or sea water at port terminals and LNG end user’s sites, respectively. Eco ice has developed and patented an innovative technology (TRL6) in various output classes to recover this highly valuable cold capacity without additional electrical power or gas consumption and provide it very cost-efficiently to the market.
The Eco ice technology has the potential, without any self-consumption of natural gas, to create electrical power savings of 5.000 MW, i.e. to replace the fossil fuels for several large power stations. The cold market is increasingly looking for such cost-efficient and eco-friendly alternatives, as confirmed by customer feedback. Even in a conservative business scenario, which assumes a technology conversion rate of only 5%, a profitable short term growth up to a high two digit million € revenue value can be expected, as confirmed by ongoing negotiations with potential launching customers and business partners. The proposed feasibility study aims at completing the market study, concretising the business plan and developing an optimised business model and sales plan starting with already initiated business partnerships.
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H2020-EU.3.3. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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04552 BORNA OT EULA
Germany
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