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Materials Technologies for performance improvement of Cooling Systems in Power Plants

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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.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials

Topic(s)

NMP-15-2015 - Materials innovations for optimisation of cooling in power plants

Call for proposal

H2020-NMP-2015-two-stage

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

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ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA

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Viale Regina Margherita 125
00198 Roma

Italy

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Other

EU Contribution

€ 724 062,50

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ENEL INGEGNERIA E RICERCA SPA

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BELGISCH LABORATORIUM VAN DE ELEKTRICITEITSINDUSTRIE LABORELEC CVBA

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 594 498

ENDESA GENERACION SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 545 037,50

ENEL GREEN POWER

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 923 006,88

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 1 791 900

DNV GL NETHERLANDS B.V.

Netherlands

KEMA NEDERLAND BV

Netherlands

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 771 000

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

France

EU Contribution

€ 822 587,50

PATHEMA BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 132 664,88

ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 534 000

SPIG SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 1 316 000

TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT

Denmark

EU Contribution

€ 808 500

AQUASTILL BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 205 625

MATERIA NOVA

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 235 388,75

INDUSTRIAS TECNICAS DE GALICIA SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 172 834,38

IONICS

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 50 750

SWECO NEDERLAND BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 78 558,38

Project information

MATChING

Grant agreement ID: 686031

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 March 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 11 847 291,75
EU contribution

€ 9 706 413,77

Coordinated by:

ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA

Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MATChING (Materials Technologies for performance improvement of Cooling Systems in Power Plants)

Reporting period: 2016-03-01 to 2017-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Power generation is a sector requiring great amounts of water primarily for cooling purposes. At European level, while water is in general abundant, water scarcity still affects some regions in particular during summer. In the Mediterranean area water demand for energy production compete with the demand from agriculture and tourism generating situation of water stress. An improved approach for a sustainable management of water resources is therefore crucial The goal of MATChING is to reduce the cooling water demand in the energy sector through the implementation of innovative technological solutions.
The project target include: a) Reduction of geothermal steam emitted into the atmosphere up to 15% and extension of production wells life up to 10%; b)Overall plant efficiency increase up to 0.5%; c) Overall reduction of fresh water abstraction in power plants of 30%. To reach these target a broad set of technologies are investigated, as indicated in Figure 1, where their application to a typical open recirculating cooling system is shown.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Figure 2 - Workplan

Figure 1 - Technologies

Project information

MATChING

Grant agreement ID: 686031

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 March 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 11 847 291,75
EU contribution

€ 9 706 413,77

Coordinated by:

ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA

Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Standard for common (water) testing conditions

First Key Performance and Success Indicators

This report establishes the different KPI’s that will be used for technologies evaluation and benchmarking along the project. An Excel file will also be associated to this report for an easy overview of the success indicators.

Second Key Performance and Success Indicators

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Other (1)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (1)

Performance of Reverse Osmosis Membranes in the Treatment of Flue-Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Wastewaters

Author(s): Carmela Conidi, Francesca Macedonio, Pietro Argurio, Alfredo Cassano, Enrico Drioli

Published in: Environments, Issue 5/6, 2018, Page(s) 71, ISSN 2076-3298

DOI: 10.3390/environments5060071

Conference proceedings (9)

Reducing the abstraction of fresh water in Power Plant: Matching H2020 project

Author(s): CUMBO, danila

Published in: 2016

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.223915

Prospects of water saving options for coal-fired

Author(s): Ludwin Daal, L. Venhuis, M. Buijs

Published in: 2016

Broadening the applications of MD (towards high salinity brines)

Author(s): Kristien De Sitter

Published in: 2017

Preventing Biofouling in Steam Condensers: the MATChING Approach

Author(s): CUMBO, danila; Poelman, Mireille; Peerterbroeck, Sophie; Onderwater, Rob

Published in: 2016

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.225157

Coating to Prevent Frost: Less Defrosting - More Energy Efficiency

Author(s): Stefan Holberg

Published in: 2016

A study of membrane characteristics for wastewater treatment through membrane distillation

Author(s): A. Ali, A. Criscuoli, F.Macedonio, E. Drioli

Published in: 2017

Hydrophobicity under Condensation

Author(s): Stefan Holberg, Ricardo Losada Mateo

Published in: 2017

The EU Project MATChING: Materials & technologies for performance improvement of cooling systems in power plants

Author(s): Cumbo, Danila

Published in: 2016

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.50659

Fouling release coatings for steam condenser in thermal power plants

Author(s): Ricardo Losada Matteo

Published in: 2017

Other (5)

Ridurre l'acqua nel Power: tecnologie a confronto

Author(s): E. Melone

Published in: ICP magazine, 2016, Page(s) 90-94

Reducing the abstraction of fresh water

Author(s): MATCHING Partners

Published in: Modern Power Systems, 2016, Page(s) 28-29

Materials & Technologies for Performance Improvement of Cooling Systems in Power Plants – MATChING project

Author(s): Danila Cumbo, Elena Tocci

Published in: 2017

Se l'energia risparmia l'acqua

Author(s): Danila Cumbo

Published in: Platinum - Aziende e Protagonisti, Issue March 2017, year 10 number 27, 2017, Page(s) 79

Parameter analysis for feasibility evaluation of shallow groundwater cooling of geothermal power plants

Author(s): K. Dirix, V. Harcouët

Published in: 2017

Project information

MATChING

Grant agreement ID: 686031

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 March 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 11 847 291,75
EU contribution

€ 9 706 413,77

Coordinated by:

ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA

Project information

MATChING

Grant agreement ID: 686031

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 March 2016
End date

31 August 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 11 847 291,75
EU contribution

€ 9 706 413,77

Coordinated by:

ENEL PRODUZIONE SPA

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