Descrizione del progetto
Una tecnologia pulita e verde per ridurre le emissioni di gas a effetto serra attraverso un’innovativa combustione assistita da plasma
Si prevede che entro il 2040 le emissioni di gas a effetto serra (GES) annue registrino un aumento del 50 %. Nemmeno le tecnologie d’avanguardia di controllo delle emissioni o di combustione saranno in grado di tenere tale incremento sotto controllo. Sebbene l’efficienza di combustione possa contribuire a ridurre le emissioni di gas a effetto serra, le attuali caldaie industriali hanno difficoltà a raggiungere un’efficienza di combustione superiore al 90 %. Per rendere la combustione più efficiente ed ecocompatibile, l’azienda estone EFENCO ha sviluppato una tecnologia proprietaria assistita da plasma che sarà convalidata e commercializzata dal progetto HERC, finanziato dall’UE. HERC condurrà uno studio di fattibilità che comprende sia la commercializzazione che le caratteristiche tecniche. Attraverso la riduzione dell’uso di combustibile e delle emissioni, la tecnologia contribuirà alla visione europea di una completa decarbonizzazione entro il 2050.
Obiettivo
Natural gas is growingly the main energy source for most industrial processes. As the amount of annual GHG emissions is expected to rise 50% by 2040, even the most sophisticated emission control or combustion technologies will struggle to tame this increase. Thus, most European industries face major challenges regardless of future mitigation commitments, including increased competition with other regions that have competitive advantages through lower cost fuels or carbon taxes. Reducing GHG emissions comes down to combustion efficiency. It is very difficult to achieve combustion efficiencies above 90% with current industrial boiler systems. Efenco has developed a proprietary plasma assisted technology that makes combustion more efficient and environmentally friendly. The technology uses small and robust multilayer devices to harvest waste heat from the combustion chamber to create plasma without additional energy, resulting in lower fuel usage and reduced emissions as less fuel is burned to achieve the same energy output. Our cost-effective technology is mainly meant for retrofitting existing combustion boilers in industrial heating systems. Our primary target group (end-users) include industrial operators with natural gas based heating systems that have a heat power capacity greater than 1 megawatt (MW). Currently, there are an estimated 50 000 systems in Europe meeting this criterion. We address the global combustion controls, equipment and systems market, estimated to reach over €132 billion by 2025. By scaling up rapidly, our objective is to reach €40 million in sales by 2024. During the Phase-1 project, Efenco will conduct a comprehensive feasibility study that includes both commercialisation and technical aspects of the innovation. In a more long-term view we are working with Safran, a high-tech industrial group, to potentially offer our technology in the global turbofan engines market.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gas
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social sciencessociologygovernancetaxation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
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