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SUSHEAT — Smart Integration of Waste and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Heat Upgrade in the Industry

SUSHEAT faces the main technological challenges to address the development of the key components for a new generation of highly efficient industrial heat upgrade systems fed by Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and waste heat recuperation. SUSHEAT technologies will explore renewable-based flexible and reliable heating solutions to power industrial processes. This will enable industry to transition away from polluting carbon-intensive fuels that dominate the energy mix. New and existing AI-assisted systems will be explored for optimal heat harvest, conversion and upgrade, and storage.

Background

Industrial processes require large amounts of heat currently generated by fossil fuels that account for more than 20% of world energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The United Nations International Panel on Climate Change stipulates that by 2030 global CO2 emissions need to be reduced by 45% compared to 2010 levels. The big industrial energy challenge is to address the current, intermittent energy source availability from renewables. An innovation leap is required to deliver reliable, flexible renewable heat upgrade systems for heat on demand, at the right temperature and price for factory processing needs. A critical, global target is to develop thermal heat systems for energy storage that are suitable for many factory settings with less greenhouse gas emissions.

SUSHEAT introduces a rational concept to harvest energy from renewable sources and waste heat to replace fossil energy for industry. SUSHEAT solutions aim to ease the immediate and future supply impacts of industrial heat electrification on the local grid.

Aim and Objectives

The main goals and objective of SUSHEAT is to contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in industrial processes by replacing fossil fuels with flexible and reliable renewable-based heating solutions. To achieve that the project will:

  • Develop and validate an efficient, heat temperature upgrade (150-250°C) using a Stirling-based high-temperature heat pump working with low-global-impact-potential fluids to achieve the target high-temperature heat upgrade.
  • Develop and validate a bio-inspired highly efficient Thermal Energy Storage system using a Phase Change Material that is adaptable to the heat requirements at target temperatures which can provide system flexibility.
  • Develop and validate a digital twin smart Control and Integration Twin system based on AI, machine learning, and big analytics.
  • Validate the integrated RES based heat upgrade system under relevant working conditions.

Project partners

  1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA

  2. KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN

  3. ENERIN AS

  4. UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA

  5. WIZ DEVELOPMENT & SERVICES SRL

  6. DYNAMIC & SECURITY COMPUTATIONS SL

  7. RTDS - VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DER KOMMUNIKATION UND VERMITTLUNG VON FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND INNOVATION

  8. INDUSTRIAL SOLAR GMBH

  9. LASER CONSULT MUSZAKI-TUDOMANYOS ES GAZDASAGI TANACSADO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG

  10. I-TES SRL

  11. KEMIJSKI INSTITUT

  12. GALAKTOKOMIKA MANDREKAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA

  13. PELAGIA AS

  14.  NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

Funding is provided by Horizon Europe (CINEA) - Grant Agreement No 101103552

Timeframe: May 2023 – April 2027

Project website: HOME | SUSHEAT

Publications

Innovation trends on high-temperature thermal energy storage to defossilize energy systems

Researchers

Silvia Trevisan
Silvia Trevisan assistant professor trevisan@kth.se Profile
Mateo Sanclemente Lozano
Mateo Sanclemente Lozano doctoral student mateosl@kth.se Profile

References

List of references already enumerated as appear in the project webpage  description.

ALT-BESS — Aging Models, LCA, and Advanced Tools for Stationary Energy Storage: Enhancing Battery Technologies and Supporting Global Decarbonization
A turnkey solution for Swedish buildings through integrated PV electricity and energy storage (PV-ESS)
CARE – Cavity Acoustics and Rossiter modEs
Circular Techno-Economic Analysis of Energy Storage– IEA Annex Co-coordination
COMHPTES — Flexible Compact Modular Heat Pump and PCM based Thermal Energy Storage System for heat and cold industrial applications
DARLING — Damaged and Repaired Blade Modeling with in-situ Experiments
DETECTIVE – Development of a Novel Tube-Bundle-Cavity Linear Receiver for CSP Applications
Digital Twin for smart grid connected buildings
eLITHE – Electrification of ceramic industries high temperature heating equipment
FLEXnCONFU: Flexiblize Combined Cycle Power Plants through Power To-X Solutions using Non-Conventional Fuels
FLUWS — Flexible Upcycled Waste Material based Sensible Thermal Energy Storage for CSP
FRONTSH1P — A FRONTrunner approach to Systemic circular, Holistic & Inclusive solutions for a New Paradigm of territorial circular economy
HP4NAR — Next generation Heat Pumps with NAtural Refrigerants for district heating and cooling systems
HECTAPUS — Heating Cooling Transition and Acceleration with Phase Change Energy Utilization Storage
HYBRIDplus – Advanced HYBRID solar plant with PCM storage solutions in sCO2 cycles
I-UPS — Innovative High Temperature Heat Pump for Flexible Industrial Systems
JOULIA — Electrification of industrial processes using induction and microwaves technologies
LCA-SESS — A new standard methodology for assessing the environmental impact of stationary energy storage systems
MERiT+ — Methane in Rocket nozzle cooling channels - conjugate heat Transfer measurements
Optimization of Molten Salt Electric Heaters
PED StepWise — Participatory Step-by-Step Implementation Process for Zero Carbon District Concepts in Existing Neighbourhoods
POWDER2POWER (P2P) — MW-scale fluidized particle-driven CSP prototype demonstration
RECOPS — Resilience and cost benefits of open-source software in the power sector
Recycling of end-of-life wind blades through renewable energy driven molten salt pyrolysis process
RIHOND – Renewable Industrial Heat On Demand
SCO2OP-TES – sCO2 Operating Pumped Thermal Energy Storage for grid/industry cooperation
SHARP-SCO2 – Solar Hybrid Air-sCO2 Power Plants
STAMPE – Space Turbines Additive Manufacturing Performance Evaluation
SUSHEAT — Smart Integration of Waste and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Heat Upgrade in the Industry
USES4HEAT – Underground Large Scale Seasonal Energy Storage for Decarbonized and Reliable Heat
UP-FLEXH — Innovative High Temperature Heat Pump for Flexible Industrial Heat on Demand
VILD — Virtual Integrated soLutions for future Demonstrators and products