Eco-industrial parks and waste heat recovery from industrial processes
Overview of the status and impact of the innovation
What
Eco-industrial parks are communities of businesses, located on a common property, that collaborate to enhance their combined environmental, economic and social performance. One business can use another’s waste heat, for example, or peak energy demand can be lowered by leveraging synergies between the different electricity consumption profiles of different industrial processes.
Why
Eco-industrial parks offer win-win strategies for improving efficiency; lowering total energy consumption and costs; reducing peak loads; and providing other benefits through shared heat generation, waste heat recovery and other measures.
BOX 6.19 Eco-industrial park in Denmark
The Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership between 12 public and private companies in Kalundborg, Denmark. Under the partnership, residues of one company become resources for others. For example, Novo Nordisk and Novozymes send their wastewater to a nearby treatment plant, leading to above-average wastewater temperatures. The heat is then used to increase the return water temperature in the district heating network from 55°C to 80°C with the help of a 10 MW heat pump facility, one of the largest in Denmark. The eco-industrial park is the first full realisation of industrial symbiosis created through private initiatives.
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Innovations (35)
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Technology and infrastructure
- 1 Low-temperature heat pumps
- 2 Hybrid heat pumps
- 3 High-temperature heat pumps
- 4 Waste heat-to-power technologies
- 5 High-temperature electricity-based applications for industry
- 6 Low-temperature thermal energy storage
- 7 Medium- and high-temperature thermal energy storage
- 8 Fourth-generation DHC systems
- 9 Fifth-generation DHC systems
- 10 Internet of Things for smart electrification
- 11 Artificial intelligence for forecasting heating and cooling demands
- 12 Blockchain for enabling transactions
- 13 Digitalisation as a flexibility enabler
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Market design and regulation
- 14 Dynamic tariffs
- 15 Flexible power purchase agreement
- 16 Flexible power purchase agreement
- 17 Standards and certification for improved predictability of heat pump operation
- 18 Energy efficiency programmes for buildings and industry
- 19 Building codes for power-to-heat solutions
- 20 Streamlining permitting procedures for thermal infrastructure
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System planning and operation
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Business models
- 28 Aggregators
- 29 Distributed energy resources for heating and cooling demands
- 30 Heating and cooling as a service
- 31 Waste heat recovery from data centres
- 32 Eco-industrial parks and waste heat recovery from industrial processes
- 33 Circular energy flows in cities – booster heat pumps
- 34 Community-owned district heating and cooling
- 35 Community-owned power-to-heat assets