By Peter Rop, Head of Product Development, and Ed Roovers, Senior Key Specialist - NEM Energy
Since 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) and Scope 2 (indirect, 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 endothermic reacting. Furthermore, there are many different fluids, including air, water / steam, olefins 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.
During the presentation, insight will be shared into:
1. Electrification of heat principles and potential use cases,
2. Basic principle of Thermal Energy Storage for energy arbitrage,
3. Comparing three E-heater principles (resistive, inductive and radiative) and relevant design aspects.
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 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 MW to 200 MW capacity range, in a single shell.
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