Addressing the growing concerns of climate change necessitates the decarbonisation of
energy sectors globally. Heating is the largest energy end-use, accounting for almost half of …

Abstract The emergence of Pinch Analysis from more than four decades ago opened a new
area of intense research development that has even accelerated in recent years. Initially …

Heat pumps can recover and upgrade industrial waste heat using renewable electricity,
creating an essential technological lever to decarbonise thermal processes. High profitability …

The need for greater sustainability for the production of fuels and chemicals has spurred
significant research to rethink energy use in the chemical industry, and eventually substitute …

Wind power curtailment becomes a major problem in many countries. The wind
accommodation mechanisms and energy saving potentials for the combined heat and …

Heat pumps powered by renewable electricity have a significant potential to become a
critical technology to disruptively decarbonize industry. An essential step towards this goal is …

Combined heat and power (CHP) plants are operating under more fluctuating working
conditions due to the increasingly inconsistent demands for heat and power and integration …

Nowadays, a high amount of industrial thermal energy is still lost due to the lack of
competitive solutions for energy revalorization. Facing this challenge, this paper presents a …

Heat pumps represent an important opportunity for energy savings and decarbonization.
This work investigates the techno-economic performance of high-temperature heat pumps …

Among the options for industrial waste heat recovery and reuse which are currently
discussed, heat pumping receives far less attention than other technologies (eg organic …