Exploring untapped renewable and waste heat to produce heating and cooling for industrial processes
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But what about the industry? As major emitter and key actor, the industry is willing to play its part and scale up technologies. The RE-WITCH consortium gathers academic experts, highly innovative companies and stakeholder representatives to develop a roadmap and work the next 4 years on demonstrating innovative sorption cooling technologies in industrial processes (adsorption and absorption chillers, cooling and solar thermal collectors, heat pump and thermal energy storage integration). The final goal is to show that valorising waste and renewable heat for heating and cooling (at multiple temperatures) is not only technically feasible but also economically viable, providing a range of benefits to the industries that will use them (maximising primary energy savings and CO2 emission reduction among others).
The manufactured innovative technologies (including also control and solar collectors) will be integrated in 4 different industrial sites in Spain, Poland, Germany and Greece, valorising low-grate waste heat and high-efficiency solar thermal technologies. Various industry players will be involved in these sites (and the ones selected for replication) to cover different reference industrial sectors: meat and dairy, pharmaceuticals, beverage, petrochemical (biodiesel and biogas) and for replication: pulp and paper, data centres, industrial solar thermal, agrifood industries and wood processing.
Lab-scale testing, simulations and modelling will ensure the technologies are optimized. Some of the aspects the project will investigate are district heating networks connected industries to study the potential integration of renewable energy and waste heat technologies, as well as how to integrate thermal heat storage in industrial sites.
Sustainability and (virtual) replication assessments will be performed, as well as exploitation activities to ensure the project develops a sustainable business model. The project will get an EU funding of over 9 million euros with the equivalent of over 30 full time people unlocking the potential of low-grade waste and renewable heat use in industries to get the coolest cold from the cleanest heat and bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, renewable energy and energy storage.
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