Heat Recovery in Energy Intensive Industries (H-REII) is a project supported by the EU LIFE Programme. Energy intensive industrial processes (iron, steel and cement production, glass making, etc.) emit heat and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the environment. Technological and non-technological barriers have negatively influenced the introduction of more energy efficient systems that are able to recover effluents for energy production in energy intensive industries. Power generation from effluents, currently considered a waste, could drastically reduce, and in some applications eliminate, the energy consumption of fume depuration, helping to reduce CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts. Considering these conditions, in January 2010 the First European project concerning the mapping of waste heat recovery in energy intensive industries has started on a pilot local territory. This project has the objective to promote policy and governance actions to support innovative solutions for recovery and energy valorisation of process effluents in energy intensive industries and quantify the potentially saved CO2.
H-REII was the first policy project (2010-2012) with a pilot approach. H-REII DEMO (2012-2014) is the second project with policy (to spread the pilot model to EU level) together with a demonstration plant in the steel industry (the first worldwide waste heat recovery in electric arc furnace (EAF) with combined generation of electricity (3 MW) and heat for industrial process.
The project has just published its action plan on H-REII DEMO that is available here.
Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 