Discover, in this kick-off webinar, how the RE-WITCH project will deliver cost-competitive, game-changing solutions in the field of sustainable industrial cooling and heating, through sorption processes.
The session aims at demonstrating how 26 partners from across Europe are developing advanced thermally-driven industrial cooling technologies based on ADsorption and ABsorption processes, driven by an optimized mix of low-grade waste heat and renewable sources. It will present and discuss the advancement of the project after 18 months of preparation and implementation. The session is highly relevant in a moment when Europe’s focus is increasingly on competitiveness and the need for energy security and independence, through innovation: the solutions developed and tested in the project will demonstrate how we can, with existing resources (waste heat and RES), decarbonise the economy. Such solutions will be demonstrated in 4 demo sites (in Italy, Greece, Spain and Poland) encompassing food and beverage, paper sectors as well as industrial sectors where heat-to-cold solutions are not yet widely explored (bio-refinery).
The project, and this session presenting the first steps it took, can lead various industries to unlock the combined potential of low-grade waste and renewable heat use in industries, with the integration of heat-to-cold technologies into relevant EU policies.
Expected audience: Industries, policy makers, research.
AGENDA
11h – Welcome, webinar settings and presenting the 2cool2waste initiative, Marine Perrio, IEECP
11h05 – RE-WITCH? What is this wizardry? Andrea Frazzica, CNR – Moderation and introduction, providing focus on the benefits and for whom, why this project.
11h20 – Driving innovation: the RE-WITCH technologies
- Christian Schweigler, HM
- Walter Mittelbach, Sorption technologies
11h40 – System integration and demonstration – how 4 pilots help shape the project results.
- Sergio Velasquez, IDP
- Maider Epelde Agirre, TECNALIA
12h – Then what? Driving competitiveness – Business models, replication and standardization
- Nora Fisher, IVL
- Christina Kachacha, IEECP
12h20 – Q&A – Marine Perrio, IEECP
