Tag: energy efficiency

Clean technologies developed by Horizon 2020 funded projects for reducing the impact of energy intensive industrial processes are helping Europe to transform into a sustainable, competitive economy and address environmental and climate-related challenges. This Results Pack highlights eight cutting-edge EU projects that are supporting this transition. Energy represents up to 20 % of the total production costs for energy intensive

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LowUP: Tell us a bit about your company. What does it do and in which way is it involved in energy efficiency? JP: EURECAT is the result of the merging process of the most important technology centres in Catalonia. We are currently participating in more than 60 EU funded collaborative projects, mainly in the Horizon 2020 Programme. In addition to this wide experience

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On the 11 and 12 February, ACCIONA (LowUP project coordinator) hosted the M40 General Assembly of the LowUP project in Madrid. On the first day, project partners presented updates on each of the 5 work packages in the LowUP project, emphasis was placed on the demonstration sites for each of the LowUP solutions. Pertinent questions relating to the exploitation of the results generated

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LowUP’s RHeX Rotating Heat Exchanger – Rotating heat recovery unit is one of the Solar Impulse Foundation’s #1000Solutions In 2013, Pozzi patented a newer model of the rotating heat recovery system called RHeX, a key part of the LowUP project. RHeX is a rotating heat exchanger specifically designed to work with dirty effluents containing mechanical particulate without losing efficiency. More on RHeX: Normally,

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LowUP: Tell us a bit about your company. What does it do and in which way is it involved in energy efficiency? Daniele: RDZ has always been involved in energy issues. Since the very beginning of its underfloor heating (UFH) business, our company has supported energy-saving solutions. While the Italian Law 373/76 focused the attention to the energy consumption in

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The next LowUP General Assembly is to be held in Paris on 11 and 12 February. ACCIONA, project coordinator will host this meeting while the workshop will be facilitated by LGI, one of the LowUP partners. On the first day of our meeting, we will assess the progress of the project so far and strategise on how to meet the project’s objectives

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Experimental study of Phase Change Material influence on different models of Photovoltaic-Thermal collectors Highlights Experimental evaluation photovoltaic-thermal performance on different models. Analysis of phase change material effect on the energy performance. Different PVT configurations are considered and compared with a commercial model. PCM provoked the reallocation of the heat generation, reaching to 30% of max. level. Thermal and electrical performance

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On the 21 and 22 November, LGI (LowUP project partner) hosted the M24 General Assembly of the LowUP project in Paris. During this meeting, an Exploitation Workshop was organised by Camille Auriault, Esti Sanvicente and Soraya Molinero to make the most of the results generated during and after the end of the project. The Exploitation Workshop considered all the results (the

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The next LowUP General Assembly is to be held in Paris on 21 and 22 November 2018. LGI, one of the thirteen LowUP project partners will host the Fourth General Technical Meeting. This meeting which will span over the period of two days will assess the progress of the project so far and strategise on how to meet the project’s objectives for the coming

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