WP04
Energy demand profiles of industry and the potential for renewables integration and negative emissions
Abstract:
Enhancing understanding of the energy demand from industry facilitates successful integration of renewables within process energy supply. The WP04 will adopt process integration methodology to characterize process energy demands, at company and sector level. Using these profiles, identification, and assessment of integration opportunities for renewables, after implementation of economical energy efficiency measures, will be conducted. Additionally, quantification of opportunities for excess heat usage and substitution of fuels/heat with negative emission technologies to fulfil the residual heating demand is assessed. Practical tools and methods will be developed for practitioners to ensure high implementation potential in the Swiss industry.
Objectives:
- Collect, collate, and evaluate plant data of industrial companies, to understand and obtain the temporal profile of energy demand in terms of both quantity and quality (energy profiles) at the company level
- Develop tools and methods to guide users in industry in obtaining their own energy profiles
- Produce exemplary profiles for various production classes, and aggregated profiles for industrial sectors
- Gain a solid understanding of exploiting negative CO2 emission technology (NET) energy efficiency potential in industry
- Systematically compare profiles with the heating and cooling capabilities of available and emerging renewable solutions to estimate the opportunities for renewable integration, fuel substitutions, and to identify the potential for NET use and the utilization of excess heat.
Tasks:
- T4.1 Data extraction, collation, and evaluation
- T4.2 Developing practical methods and tools for use in Industry
- T4.3 Characterization of energy profiles
- T4.4 Opportunities for negative emissions technologies
- T4.5 Quantification of opportunities
Technology ReadinessLevel: from 3 to 4
Expected Outcomes / Milestones:
- A standardized evaluation method for analyzing pinch analysis data to produce company energy profiles.
- Development of methods and tools for rapid determination of energy profiles.
- Generation of exemplar energy profiles, and aggregated sectorial demand profiles for each industrial sector.
- Systematic identification and characterization of pre- and postcombustion negative emission technologies.
- Systematic identification and quantification of opportunities for renewable heating and cooling, and for alternative NETs.
Duration: January 2021 - December 2024 (48 months)
Lead: Prof. Dr. Beat Wellig (HSLU-TEVT)
Publication: see list here.
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