Industrial Excess Heat Recovery

Task

Start date 2011-01-01

End date 2025-10-31

Recent developments

The proposal for Subtask 4 of this Task (formerly called Annex) was approved by the IETS ExCo in January and it started in October 2024. Please contact Tasks Manager Rene Hofmann for participation or more information.

The Final Report from Task 3 is available.

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Subtask 4

The start of Subtask 4 was approved by the IETS ExCo in January 2024. Read the Subtask proposal.

Task Members

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

Task Manager

Rene Hofmann, ATU Wien, Austria.

Objectives and Scope

The objectives of Subtask 4 are:

to enhance international collaboration in the field of industrial excess heat usage and industrial symbiosis,
to create a platform within IEA for sharing experiences and findings in R&D projects in the three activity areas included in this proposal,
to improve the knowledge in participating countries in the combination of methods for excess heat identification and quantification,
to exchange experience about strategic planning and risk mitigation in excess heat projects
to broaden awareness about consequences for excess heat levels of future changes in industrial energy systems
to continue work on an online database for excess heat projects that can be efficiently used for future assessments to form clear, replicable strategies and guidelines,
to enhance knowledge about consequences for the performance of industrial excess heat projects of different possible future innovative developments to identify future plans or trends in participating countries.

Activities in Subtask 4

The Subtask is organised in the following activites:

The role of excess heat in industry and industrial symbiosis
Strategic process integration/intensification for future changes in industrial energy systems
Ongoing projects at different TRL levels and systematical knowledge transfer

Deliverables

The deliverables in the Subtask will be:

a synthesis report on findings in the projects included in the Subtask as well as reported in literature, divided into the three activities,
one report on discussion points and findings in the workshops included in the Subtask (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).