Process heat electrification, energy efficiency improvement, and renewable technology integration are the most effective ways of achieving industrial decarbonization.
However, a comprehensive knowledge of thermal energy demands and excess heat sources along with the corresponding temperature levels is imperative for the most optimum integration of aforementioned process.
The paper by HSLU-TEVT, together with UNIGE-EE, presents a methodology for constructing sector-wide composite curves to rigorously characterize the thermal energy demands and the available excess heat sources for the Swiss industry subsectors.
The sector-wide energy demand profiles derived from this methodology offer valuable insights into the quantity of heat demand and the quality of the available excess heat. Thus, enabling the implementation of energy efficiency and decarbonization technologies such as heat pumps, and renewable heating and cooling technologies.
Link:
- Ong, Benjamin H.Y., Bhadbhade, Navdeep, Olsen, Donald G., Wellig, Beat (2023): Characterizing sector-wide thermal energy profiles for industrial sectors, Energy, Vol. 282, 1 November 2023, 129028, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.129028
