Industrial Excess Heat Recovery

Task

Start date 2011-01-01

End date 2023-03-31

Recent developments

The original Tasks (Phase 1) of this Annex were completed in 2015 and the reports delivered are listed and available for download at the bottom of this page. However, the Annex work continued in October 2016 with a second phase, called Task 2, which is now concluded and the Final Report has been published. The start of Task 3 was approved by the IETS ExCo in May 2019 and during 2022 it will be concluded and the Final Report published.

Annex Members

Austria, Canada, France, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.

Annex Manager

New Annex Manager for Task 3, starting in October 2019: Rene Hofmann, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria.

Description

The titel of Task 3 is: Combination of Methods and Operational Aspects for Industrial Excess Heat-Available Resources, Risk Minimization and Consequences of Future Changes in the Energy System. The main background for this annex is the increasing awareness about industrial excess heat as a potential resource for contributing to an improved economy and sustainability in larger systems. Although industrial excess heat has been used and is being used to a large extent internationally, the potential for an even wider use is considered to be substantial. It can be used

internally in an industry for primary energy saving
in another industry or other industries in an industrial cluster
between an industry/ industrial cluster and a district heating system
between an industry/industrial cluster and e. g. greenhouses
as a heat source in refrigeration plants for industrial or district cooling

Objectives and Scope

The objectives of Task 3 are

to enhance international collaboration in the field of industrial excess heat usage,
to create a platform within IEA for sharing experiences and findings in R&D projects in the five areas included in this proposal,
to improve the knowledge in participating countries regarding the combination of methods for excess heat identification and quantification,
to address to operational aspects, e.g. monitoring, control
to exchange experience about risk minimization in excess heat projects
to broaden awareness about consequences for excess heat levels of future changes in industrial energy systems
to enhance knowledge about consequences for the performance, economically and in terms of sustainability, of industrial excess heat projects of different possible future innovative developments to identify future plans or trends in participating countries.

Current Tasks/Subtasks

The current subtasks are:

Subtask 1: Combination of methods for excess heat identification and quantification
Subtask 2: Consequences for excess heat levels of future changes in industrial energy systems
Subtask 3: Operational aspects in industrial energy systems
Subtask 4: Opportunity and risk assessment for excess heat Projects
Subtask 5: Compilation of innovative excess heat projects

Deliverables

The results of the Task will be:

a synthesis report on findings in the projects included in the Task as well as reported in literature, divided into the five subtasks,
one report on discussion points and findings in the workshops included in the Task (to be included in the synthesis report),
a recommendation for further work internationally (to be included in the synthesis report),
one report from each participant project (one or more per country).
dissemination activities of each participating country.