Il progetto in dettaglio
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Qual è il problema risolto?
The problem : industry cannot operate without heat.
Industrial process heat is one of the world’s largest remaining sources of global CO₂ emissions and one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize. Nowadays, industries face increasing pressure to reduce emissions while maintaining competitiveness and energy security.
Industrial processes such as drying, distillation, stripping and evaporation all depend on one essential input: heat.
Process heat accounts for approximately 80% of industrial energy consumption. Much of this heat is required at temperatures above 100°C and is supplied in the form of steam. Yet around 75% of industrial heat is still generated by burning fossil fuels in boilers.
This creates three major challenges for industry:
• High and structurally exposed energy costs
• Dependence on fossil-fuel supplies and vulnerability to energy-price volatility
• Most importantly, substantial CO₂ emissions and a major environmental impact
Industry urgently needs a scalable solution capable of supplying reliable, high-temperature steam while reducing energy consumption, operating costs and dependence on fossil fuels. Above all, industrial heat generation must be radically decarbonized without disrupting existing production processes.
Come si risolve?
The solution: high-temperature heat pumps turning waste heat into industrial steam
Heatlift’s engineering team has built on several years of expertise in thermodynamic systems to develop a high-temperature heat pump capable of delivering steam at the temperatures required by industrial processes.
The principle is simple: the heat pump recovers low-temperature heat that would otherwise be wasted, upgrades it through a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle and converts it into high-temperature process steam. The steam is then re-injected into the industrial process, replacing steam conventionally generated by fossil-fuel boilers.
Consider an industrial facility requiring 4 MW of useful high-temperature process heat. With a conventional boiler, the facility typically needs to purchase approximately 4.5 MW of natural gas to meet this demand.
With Heatlift’s high-temperature heat pump, the facility receives the same 4 MW of useful process heat but only needs to purchase approximately 1.3 MW of decarbonized electricity. The remaining 2.7 MW are recovered from low-temperature waste heat already available on site.
Heatlift’s high temperature heat pump therefore transforms an often-overlooked energy resource into valuable high-temperature process steam, enabling industries to:
• reduce energy consumption by more than a factor of three compared with a fossil-fuel boiler;
• electrify their remaining external energy demand;
• reduce energy costs by approximately 30%;
• limit exposure to fossil-fuel supply risks and price volatility;
• strengthen industrial energy independence;
• and, most importantly, reduce CO₂ emissions for process heat generation by 95%.
Industrial facilities can maintain the steam conditions required by their existing production processes while dramatically reducing purchased energy consumption, CO₂ emissions and dependence on fossil fuels.
In che modo questa soluzione è diversa?
Heatlift does not manufacture one-size-fits-all heat pumps. Each system is based on our proprietary modular architecture and engineered to match the functional, operational and structural requirements of the customer's industrial process. This approach combines the scalability of a standardized platform with the performance of a process-specific solution.
This engineering approach is made possible by a rare combination of proprietary centrifugal compressor design, advanced expertise in high-temperature thermodynamic cycles and extensive experience in industrial process integration. These multidisciplinary capabilities enable Heatlift to optimize efficiency, reliability and operability for each application, while preserving the benefits of a standardized product platform.
Heatlift brings together one of the few European engineering teams with extensive experience in designing high-temperature thermodynamic systems for demanding industrial applications. This rare combination of competencies is found in only a limited number of engineering teams worldwide.
Heatlift differentiates itself through:
• Direct production of industrial steam up to 200°C.
• Proprietary modular architecture adaptable to each industrial process.
• Up to 95% lower CO₂ emissions.
• Threefold lower electricity consumption than electric boilers.
• Seamless integration into existing industrial facilities.
• Designed for large-scale industrial deployment worldwide.
