By Peter Rop, Head of Product Development,
and Ed Roovers, Senior Key Specialist - NEM Energy
About 80 percent of energy use in industry is related to generation of heat. Green electrification of the heat demand is key to decarbonize the sector, respectively key to reducing Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy) emissions.
The electrification of industry is a complex puzzle. Electrification of Heat has a wide range of temperatures, from 80 °C to above 1000 °C for heating and/or for endothermic reacting. Furthermore, there are many different fluids like air, water / steam, olefins, thermal oil or molten salts, either as process fluid or heat transfer fluid. Finally, a variety of capacity sizes, from kilowatts to megawatts or even gigawatts have to be considered.
In NEMs presentation for AIChE last year, the main focus was on the different electrical heating technologies. During this presentation, NEM will share insight into:
1. Status update on the heating technologies developments at NEM
2. Basic principles of Thermal Energy Storage for energy arbitrage
3. Use - and business cases for Thermal Energy storage
NEM Energy is a globally renowned Dutch company interested to share its view on potential future solutions in the field of heat decarbonization. Developments are derived from their experience in heat transfer equipment for the power industry and large-scale industrial customers. This experience comes together with the late activities in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects. NEMs focus is on medium and high temperature (200 °C to 1000 °C), beyond the reach of industrial heat pumps. And this is considered in combination with large-scale heating solutions in the 20 to 200 MW capacity range, in a single shell.
Presentation file here