Shaping a climate-neutral future: Lighthouse project for waste heat recovery
Industry:
District and local heating networkSolution:
thermeco2 heat pumpsTheme:
Natural refrigerantsTwo companies, one common goal: ENGIE Refrigeration is supporting BS|ENERGY in Braunschweig on its way to a climate-neutral future with a highly efficient heating solution. A real lighthouse project!
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A thermeco2 high-temperature heat pump type HHR 360 from ENGIE Refrigeration generates 370 kilowatts of sustainable heat, which is fed into the local heating network of a new urban district in Braunschweig.
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The special feature of the lighthouse project is that the waste heat from a data center serves as the heat source. The system draws cooling water with a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius from this.
The European Union's “ReUseHeat” funding project is driving forward the development of innovative solutions for heat recovery. The participating countries have set themselves the goal of finding ways to make sensible and future-oriented use of waste heat and thus save CO2. In this context, ENGIE Refrigeration was involved in a lighthouse project in the energy sector with highly efficient heating technology. The cooling and heating specialists worked together with BS|ENERGY, an electricity and gas supplier from Braunschweig that is committed to a sustainable and smart future in the region. ENGIE Refrigeration provided a thermeco2 high-temperature heat pump type HHR 360 for the sustainable supply of a local heating network. This was an exemplary technical fit for the lighthouse project for waste heat utilization: This is because the high-temperature heat pump draws cooling water at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius from the data center to generate heating water at 70 degrees.
Waste heat recovery: sustainable and efficient
In the challenging balancing act between hot water inlet and outlet temperatures, thermeco2 unfolds its full potential in terms of efficiency and is therefore ideally suited to the lighthouse project. The heat generated by the high-temperature heat pump with a heat output of 370 kilowatts is fed into the local heating network of the new urban district in Braunschweig, thus offering not only economic but also social added value. In terms of climate neutrality, the high-temperature heat pump impresses with its sustainable use of waste heat and the use of the natural refrigerant CO2. This contributes neither to the destruction of the ozone layer nor to the greenhouse effect - and is therefore a must-have for lighthouse projects for climate-neutral cooling and heat generation and targeted waste heat recovery. Fully in line with the EU funding program “ReUseHeat”.
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