Descripción del proyecto
Generación de energía rentable y respetuosa con el medio ambiente a través de la ósmosis
Se puede producir energía competitiva, limpia y ecológica utilizando la fuerza natural de la ósmosis. Gracias a la potencia osmótica, la diferencia en la concentración de sal de dos flujos de agua crea un gradiente de presión que puede utilizarse para generar energía. El proyecto SaltPower, financiado con fondos europeos, ha desarrollado unidades de potencia osmótica que pueden instalarse en módulos en contenedores y generar energía de carga base no fluctuante para el consumo propio o la red eléctrica. El objetivo del proyecto es ampliar su actual unidad de potencia osmótica portátil de 20 kW a una unidad de 100 kW y reducir aún más los costes de la electricidad. El proyecto ayudará a alcanzar el objetivo europeo de producción de energía sin emisiones.
Objetivo
The Osmotic Power Unit (OPU) is an innovation that can produce competitive, clean and environmentally friendly energy using the natural force of osmosis: A difference in salt concentration in water streams creates a pressure gradient, which can be harnessed for power generation.
The SaltPower OPUs are delivered in containerized modules and generate non-fluctuating baseload power for own consumption or the power grid. Today SaltPower delivers a mobile 20 kW the OPU and will be able to upscale and deliver a 100 kW unit as a direct result of this EIC project.
Already now, when moving out of the demonstration phase, salt power costs only half of state-of-the-art wind power. The electricity generated from our OPU unit will cost 0.021 €/kWh, or approx. only 20% of current average EU market price of 0.10 €/kWh. As production scales and membranes are developed even further, the price of electricity from SaltPowers OPU can be as low as 0.01 €/kWh, equivalent to 1/10th of the EU average. The OPU is built into 40’ containers and can be assembled by a skilled and semi-skilled workforce in a pace where SaltPower can grow and learn while the technology and business mature.
We have demonstrated the technology and the low LCOE in real life through a 20 kW demonstration plant (D20) operated at the Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel) salt production plant in Denmark in 2018/19. This applied project will upscale the technology to the SaltPower J100 that has the innovativeness for market disruption, not only on the first niche market, but in several markets later.
The European market holds the potential for several thousand plants from SaltPower, who targets a turnover of €41m by 2025 by focusing on the market segment with easiest implementation and biggest value to customers: Salt producers.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power transmission
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3
Régimen de financiación
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinador
6400 SONDERBORG
Dinamarca
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.