Past events: DryFiciency at Decarb Cities conference

On 16th of May, the Decarb cities forum took place in MuseumsQuartier in Vienna to address the trend of increasing share of human population living in cities and to discuss no-pollution solutions.

Compressors from Viking Heat Engines and Bitzer – specially engineered to reach up to 160 °C – have been delivered to an experienced Austrian heat pump manufacturer and work is underway to build the first industrial, high-temperature heat pump systems to be installed at DryFiciency’s demo partner sites. 

Compressors from Viking Heat Engines and Bitzer – specially engineered to reach up to 160 °C – have been delivered to an experienced Austrian heat pump manufacturer and work is underway to build the first industrial, high-temperature heat pump systems to be installed at DryFiciency’s demo partner sites.

Consortium members met between 20.-21. November 2017 in Trondheim – Norway for its 3rd consortium meeting. To lead to successful post-project opportunities of DryFiciency project, the focus of this meeting was business model development and exploitation strategies. Additionally, a visit to scientific partner´s (SINTEF) research facilities took place.

DryFiciency project was presented at the European Heat Pump Summit 2017 in Nuremberg.

´´Heat pump technology shows potential to reach energy-savings, impossible to be reached by other technologies. It is considered to open doors for heat pump technology in AGRANA’s production plants in the future.´´

Emmerich Haimer, responsible Technician at AGRANA Starch GmbH

“DryFiciency is offering a competitive advantage through demonstrating best available heat pump technology to recover latent energy from moist air flows. It´s what the industry needs.”

Dirk Saldsieder, Head of R&D and Process Technology at Wienerberger AG

“With DryFiciency project, we aim for 60-80% energy reduction in our drying operations. This a very ‘hot topic’ and an important step in our journey towards becoming 100% fossil fuel-free operation by 2040. Indeed, DryFiciency is an exciting project with a lot of potentials!”

Ingeborg Peters , Global Petcare Technology Development Manager at Mars GmbH

Decarbheat2017 brought together many stakeholders with a shared vision of carbon-free future. Sector commitment is present and strong but will it actually make it happen? Electrification, district heating, and industrial processes are set as priorities for action, while energy efficiency, heat pumps and greater share of renewables were deemed as the remedy.