EPSRC CONSORTIUM. Thermal Management of Industrial Processes. Start date: 1 September Project Duration: 24 months

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1 EPSRC CONSORTIUM Thermal Management of Industrial Processes Start date: 1 September 2009 Project Duration: 24 months (Kick Off Meeting: 29 September 2009)

2 Main Objective To investigate new and appropriate technologies and supporting measures needed to enhance and exploit the large amount of un-used low grade heat available from a wide range of process industries

3 Academic partners: Sheffield University Newcastle University Manchester University: CPI Manchester University: Tyndall Centre

4 Industrial Partners: 1. Corus Ltd: 2. North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) 3. E.ON UK, Ratcliffe-on-Soar: 4. BP Chemical Ltd 5. Alstom Power Ltd 6. MW Kellogg Ltd (MWKL) 7. Veolia (Sheffield Heat and Power Ltd) 8. Pfizer Ltd. 9. Juniper Ltd 10.Evonik Degussa Seal Sands Ltd

5 Six Leading Areas of Research: 1 - Develop a database of the relevant energy situation in the process industry and its potential uses. 2 - Increase the amount of low grade heat that is available from the process industry by neglected techniques such as condensing moisture from the flue gases.

6 3 - Assess opportunities for external use of currently wasted process energy for local industrial or district heating applications. 4 - Analyse the opportunities to upgrade the energy, by heat pumps or drying fuels, and thus render the heat suitable for additional applications such as power generation.

7 5 - Advanced modelling of large scale over-the-fence process integration, together with system-wide modelling to take account of the dynamic fluctuations in both energy supplies from the process and demand by the consumer. 6 Assessment of the environmental benefits and wider socio-economic impacts

8 Stakeholder Input Industrial Partners Other industrial participants Co-opted partners EPSRC managed project Active EPSRC participation Academic supported programmes Government agencies ETI etc?

9 Research Tasks Task 1. National sources of low grade heat available from the process industry - Led by Newcastle University Task 2. Identification of potential uses of the energy and their relative location. - Led by Newcastle University.

10 Task 3. Novel technologies to increase the amount of low grade heat available from process industries. Led by Sheffield University. Task 4. Novel technologies to increase the efficiency of using the low-grade thermal energy for district heating. Led by Sheffield University

11 Task 5. Novel technologies to upgrade the heat and thus render it suitable for additional applications. Led by Sheffield University Task 6. System-wide Modelling and optimisation with Advanced Process Integration for Low Grade Heat Recovery Led by CPI (Manchester University)

12 Task 7.Environmental and Socio-Economic Issues. Led by Tyndall Centre, Manchester University Task 8. Final Report. - All Partners

13 Danish Integrated Boilers/Combined Cycle CHP network of units

14 Deliverables: 1 - Four partner workshops for rapid and efficient technology transfer. 2 - Three comprehensive interim Reports at six month intervals plus the Final Report and an associated automated decisionsupport tool. 3 - Publications in high impact refereed journals.

15 4 Exploitation of the concurrent and future EPSRC Network and web site. 5 - Dissemination of policy-relevant recommendations to stakeholders in an appropriate form. It is envisaged that the Network will be the major route for wider dissemination.

16 Project Work Plan

17 Task3 - Sheffield ; high efficiency Novel technology Industrial condensing boilers Low temperature, < dew point Boiler design External system

18 Task4 - Sheffield; district heating Novel technology Industrial waste heat Low temperature return; Large radiators Underfloor heating Integrate with other sources; e.g. biomass System growth; e.g. Barnsley

19 Task5 Sheffield; heat upgrade Novel technologies a) Mechanical heat pump systems b) Thermo-acoustic heat pump 1) Wave generation 2) Energy removal 3) Efficiency and cost c) Drying biomass