Objective
MATChING goal is the reduction of cooling water demand in the energy sector through innovative technological solutions, to be demonstrated in thermal and geothermal power plants. The project targets include an overall saving of water withdrawal of 30% in thermal power generation, and a decrease of evaporative losses up to 15% in geothermal sector. The use of advanced and nano-technology based materials will be leveraged to make economically affordable water saving in power plants and pave the way to the market uptake. All technological areas of plant cooling systems will be affected: cooling tower, steam condenser, cooling water circuit and water conditioning. The use of alternative cooling fluids will be investigated to develop advanced hybrid cooling towers for geothermal high temperature power plants, and hybrid cooled binary cycles for low temperature geothermal fields, combining dry/wet cooling, and closed loop groundwater cooling. To increase available effective water supply at reasonable costs, alternative water sources will be exploited: different membrane based technologies will be used to re-cycle or re-use municipal, process and blow down waters. To improve cooling equipment robustness advanced materials and coatings for cooling tower and condensers will be investigated, allowing increasing concentration cycles or directly using aggressive fluids. Demonstration will take place in partner-owned industrial sites, operating pilot plants in intended environment and/or in demo scale, guaranteeing the achievement of TRL 6 for all the technologies. The demonstration activities and the partnership composition ensures the validation of suitable business models and the finalization of business plans, guaranteeing the technological transfer from industry to market, increasing competitiveness at European level, and impacting on water use in power generation sector.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power generation
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineering
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-NMP-2015-two-stage
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
00198 Roma
Italy
Participants (17)
1630 Linkebeek
41004 Sevilla
00198 Roma
2400 Mol
Participation ended
6812 AR Arnhem
00185 Roma
75008 Paris 08
5051 KW Goirle
36410 Porrino
28041 Arona
2630 Taastrup
6135 KT Sittard
7000 Mons
36415 Mos
4042 Liers
Participation ended
3732 HM De Bilt
Participation ended
00198 Roma