Project description
Novel heat exchanger turns restaurants’ waste heat into energy
Grease, soot and heat all combine to make the atmosphere inside restaurants unhealthy. Effective heat recovery units for commercial kitchens are lacking, and therefore heat is released into the air without being recycled. The EU-funded LEPIDO project is supporting Sweden-based company Enjay AB in developing the first energy recycler that can capture the energy released from the kitchen exhaust ducts in restaurants and convert it into reusable energy. This heavy-duty heat exchanger relies on three revolutionary Swedish patents and offers average energy savings of 150 000 kWh – the equivalent of saving 15 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
Objective
Enjay’s product, Lepido, is the first energy recycler capable of extracting the energy from the hostile and greasy exhaust air in restaurants and converting it into useable energy to heat the actual property. Lepido is based on three revolutionary Swedish patents and offers an average energy savings of 150,000 kWh – the equivalent of saving 15 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
Today, there is no effective heat recovery unit for commercial kitchens and the energy is simply released straight into the air without recycling. Unlike recycling heat from ventilation air in offices or apartment buildings, one of the greatest problems in restaurant ventilation is the aggressive environment (grease, pollution, moisture, soot, etc.) which destroys heat recovery equipment like cross-flow, rotating or battery units over time.
Enjay begins a major transformation in the industry by changing the way of thinking about energy management in restaurant ventilation. With Lepido, Enjay opens up for energy recovery in a segment of the ventilation industry where it hasn’t been possible until now. By doing so, Enjay creates a financial incentive to save the environment.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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21119 MALMO
Sweden
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