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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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Lukewarm wastewater discharged by industries and higher-temperature effluent from underground sewer networks are excellent energy sources for space heating and cooling and countless industrial processes. An EU-funded project demonstrated technologies that capture the heat wastewater retains. READ ABOUT OUR FEATURE ON CORDIS (in 6 languages) Coole Wege zur Nutzung niedergradiger Energie aus Kanalisationswasser und Industrieabwässern Ideas recién salidas del horno para

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The LowUP partners are collaboratively developing and demonstrating one heating and one cooling system for office buildings, and one heat recovery system for industrial processes. The systems hare being demonstrated at four demo sites: a pilot office building in Seville (Spain, ACCIONA Construction); a water treatment plant in Madrid (Canal de Isabel II & ACCIONA Water); a Pulp and Paper mill in Setubal

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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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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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Summary On 9 September 2019, EASME B.1.1 organised a workshop on Waste Heat & Cold utilisation. The workshop was organised as a side event of 5th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and was hosted at the premises of Aalborg University. The aim of the conference was to establish a venue for presenting and discussing scientific findings and industrial experiences

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LowUP – which stands for ‘Low valued energy sources UPgrading for buildings and industry uses’– will contribute to achieving Europe’s GHG reduction targets and increase energy efficiency.  The project will develop and demonstrate three new efficient heating and cooling technologies that will significantly reduce both CO2 emissions and primary energy consumption. Heating and cooling refers to the energy needed to

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LowUP partner, EndeF sheds light on the ongoing project from LGI on Vimeo.