CES purchases Enerin HoegTemp heat pump
Enerin AS has signed an agreement with Circular Energy Systems (CES) for the sale of a HoegTemp high-temperature heat pump that will be integral to the demonstration of future drying solutions.
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The collaboration between CES, Enerin and other household-name industrial manufacturers will facilitate an effective industrial transition to electric drying at temperatures up to 250°C.
The planned demonstration is due to be implemented in Denmark in 2025, ready for a 2026 launch of the system.
The CES circular dryer will integrate Enerin’s high-temperature heat pump which will deliver energy and CO2 savings of 50 to 80 per cent for factory processes aiming at an estimated payback time of three to five years.
Industrial drying is responsible for 2.8 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions per year using fossil fuel fired boilers and drying systems. This is equivalent to the emissions of 600 million cars, according to Our World in Data.
A large amount of energy is required to evaporate water from manufactured goods. The condensation of heat from this process, called latent heat, contains inherent thermal energy which can be captured and used again by combining circular drying systems and high-temperature heat pumps.
The solution plans to reclaim the energy from evaporation, eliminating the need to exhaust humid air from the drying process into the air. Instead, the drying process could be conducted in a closed system in a bid to sever dependence on fossil fuels.
CES approached Enerin because the HoegTemp ultra high heat pump can deliver temperatures up to 250°C and is capable of a temperature lift of 200°C.
The targeted sectors include processes that involve baking and drying – particularly grain, pasta and rice, building materials, paper and pulp and in clothes laundering.
These solutions will facilitate the pressing ambitions of the Paris Agreement goals that call for emissions’ reductions of 46 per cent by 2030 to reach net zero by 2050.