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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).
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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.
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.