Sectors of application

Thermal equipment manufacturers / Food industry / Chemical and plastics industries / Industrial dryers / Heat networks / Research & development

Your challenges

Industrial customers

  • To assess the benefit of waste heat recovery operation from among a panel of choices: ORCs, heat pumps, thermo-refrigerating pumps, heat exchangers, absorption heat pumps, thermal storage, etc.
  • To optimise your processes in terms of energy by using the most suitable solution.

Equipment manufacturers

  • To characterise and validate recovery technologies or systems.
  • To develop a research programme and/or build test facilities to design your future innovations.

Our strengths

  • More than 10 years of experience in audits and diagnostics carried out on the premises of EDF and Dalkia industrial customers.
  • Training courses for a variety of profiles (maintenance operators, design engineers, etc.).
  • Internationally recognised scientific excellence (peer reviewed publications, awards, higher education training).

Our offer

For industrial customers:

  • Audits on the potential for waste heat recovery on your facilities. Training by our experts.
  • Modelling of heat production installations and optimisation of their design and management.
  • Assistance in project design, construction and project management for the implementation of identified optimal solutions.

For equipment manufacturers:

  • Characterisation of your products in terms of operating range, endurance test, instrumentation and control test, partial load operation, stop-start cycles, mapping of performance under various thermal conditions, etc.
  • Assistance for preparation of projects and research programmes, search for grants and financing.
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Use case examples

Johnson Controls: R&D programme and tests for the development of unique heat pump, first of its kind in the world.

Johnson Controls: testing of a high temperature (120°C) heat pump, complete performance mapping.

Clauger: co-development of a high temperature (105°C) heat pump.

Cristopia: testing of phase change nodules behaviour for heat storage.

Various industrial customers: guidance in waste heat recycling projects in their plants.