Heco2 – Electrification
Heco 2 : Low-carbon industry: Electrification of industrial processes at high temperatures
Objectives
Decarbonation of Wallonia’s heavy industry
Electrification and Electrolysis as primary innovation cluster with MecaTech.
A number of Walloon industrialists, academic partners, and accredited research centres have come together within the “HECO2” consortium in order to develop new production methods and associated technologies that will help them to reduce their CO2 emissions.
The “ELECTRIFICATION” phase of HECO2 will aim to establish the first demonstrators and engineering studies in Wallonia for the partial or total electrical heating (with no direct CO2 emissions) of high temperature ovens, in replacement of CO2 emitting fossil energy used in combustion processes, by addressing three main technological challenges in the areas of the production of sheet glass, slab reheating, and the thermal conversion of solids.
The electrification of these processes being considered presents with a number of technological, industrial, and economic challenges and risks, and their development will also be supported by an “Industry 4.0” approach via the creation of digital twins. THE “PLUSSES”:
• Potential to reduce emissions from the industries concerned by 8% or more if the project is enlarged to the whole of Belgium and Europe.
• Sustainability of economic activity in Wallonia, Belgium and Europe, and reduction of associated costs via mechanisms such as the Emission Trading System.
• Creation of around fifteen new jobs and potential for further employment opportunities after deployment and commercialisation of the technologies developed.
Find out more in the video produced by GreenWin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UmJG6Gmiw
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