Project objectives
The project objectives aim at creating a unique chance for a collaborative development and establishment of technology supply chains from OEMs to end-users.
Main objectives
The project focuses on these four main objectives:
- to develop two high-temperature heat pump technologies to increase the competition and redundancy
of the market, which is needed to facilitate the transition towards sustainable process heating - to test and demonstrate the technologies in industrial environments to create awareness and trust at
end-users - to enable sector integration by upgrading district heating for process heating
- to increase the awareness and acceptance of high-temeprature heat pump-based process heat supply.
Sub-objectives
The main objectives comprise the following sub-objectives:
- Development of two high-temeprature heat pump technologies (WP 1 & 2) and concepts for integration
at different integration levels - High-temperature heat pump system I: Cascade system using hydrocarbons with semi-hermetic
commercial compressors for supply temperatures of up to 150 °C for final application capacities
between 500 kW and 1500 kW to be integrated on process level - High-temperature heat pump system II: Cascade system using butane and water with open industrial
compressors for supply temperatures up to 160 °C for final application capacities between 1 MW and
15 MW to be integrated on utility of sector level - Testing of both systems with respect to function and performance at variety of operating conditions
(WP 3)
- Demonstration of both systems in an industrial environment
- Increasing the awareness at a variety of stakeholders, including end-users and consultants, district
heating companies, technology suppliers including OEMs and system manufacturers as well as R&D
institutes and universities.
The technological developments will not only be competitive alternatives to other technologies, but also solve challenges resulting from the integration on different levels. Furthermore, the potentials of sector integration, and thereby the resulting business models, will be demonstrated and analyzed as a basis for facilitating the wide application of high-temperature heat pumps.