A new industrial heat pump design from ETH Zurich promises to be more flexible and more energy efficient as well.
Process heat is essential to the manufacturing of many products. Some heat is needed to cook food and pasteurize milk. Higher temperatures are needed to dry the paint on automobiles or make conventional lithium batteries. Today, about 95% ofcomes from burning fossil fuels and accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
The mixture itself consists of a traditional refrigerant and one further component. The temperature profile of the heat pump is dictated by the ratio of these two ingredients. “In principle, you can have any number of different profiles for industrial processes, as long as the temperatures don’t exceed 200 degrees. That’s the major advantage our technology offers,” Bardow says.
The team now hopes to provide even more concrete examples of how their technology could benefit specific industrial applications. The new heat pump is likely to be of particular interest in the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, where numerous processes require temperatures of less than 200 degrees. At the same time, the researchers are working closely with heat pump manufacturers such as MAN Energy Solutions, Scheco AG, and with Swiss industry partners such as Lindt.
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