References

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Equipment supply

• MERSEN produces graphite parts for various applications (brake discs, industry, heat exchangers, wafer carriers, etc.).
• The resource at the Gennevilliers site is flared waste gas from the production furnace. It represents 300 kWth usable by a burner.
• Thermal cogeneration allows for heating a machining workshop in winter
• First H2P demonstrator installed at a client’s site

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Equipment supply

• ESSITY manufactures hygiene papers (toilet paper and hand towels) from recycled paper.
• A first demonstrator installation of the paper sludge recovery process, subsidized by ADEME, is currently being assembled and validated at the Hondouville site (small resource of 140 kWth at 900°C).

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Technical Expertise

• VICAT produces cement incorporating clinker, which is necessary for concrete performance. This clinker is produced in a rotary kiln from limestone and clay heated to high temperatures (1450°C).
• The thermal resource of the Montalieu furnace corresponds to 5 MWth at 300°C.
• Thermal cogeneration would be used to dry Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF), alternative fuels substituting fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas.

To recover waste heat available from a cement kiln for drying solid recovered fuel.

Audit Duration: 2 months

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Technical Expertise

• FMI PROCESS produces sludge furnaces, generally from wastewater treatment plants.
• FMI PROCESS requested HEVATECH for a sludge incinerator project in Pavia (Italy).
• The targeted resource consists of 2 incinerators. It represents more than 3.1 MWth at high temperature (< 570°C).
• Thermal cogeneration will allow for the drying of incoming sludge without additional energy consumption.

To recover waste heat available from an agricultural sludge incineration furnace for drying inputs.

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Innovative Project

• Project responding to the I-NOV 5 call for projects proposed by ADEME as part of France 2030.
• Increased turbine performance, efficiency, and maximum power, and optimization of its role in separating oil from water vapor.

• Development of complex numerical models to simulate the behavior of high-velocity two-phase flows (liquid/gas) projected onto an impulse turbine.
• Parametric optimization of the turbine
• Development of a specific test device
• Development of a custom system for liquid/gas phase separation.

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Innovative Project

• Project funded by the AID-DGA RAPID scheme, in partnership with the French hot air storage specialist ECO-TECH CERAM.
• Development of an operational demonstrator for a thermodynamic solar power plant, capable of producing electricity day and night, utilizing an HEVATECH H2P hot air engine and ECO-TECH CERAM thermal storage.

• Validation of the feasibility of a demonstrator combining engine, thermal storage, and electrical conversion.
• Design of a sizing tool for the integration of thermal storage into Hevatech systems.
• Continuous operation of the H2P engine under intermittent thermal source constraints.

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Innovative Project

• Project responding to the I-BAC SME call for projects proposed by ADEME as part of France 2030.
• Expansion of the TURBOSOL range for the recovery of lower temperature waste heat (range 200°C < T < 300°).
• Improvement of the electrical conversion efficiency of the TURBOSOL process for the current temperature range without cogeneration (300 < T < 600°).

• Studies on the vacuum implementation of the TURBOSOL process.
• Development and optimization of injectors and the turbine specifically for vacuum operation.
• Design and production of a TURBOSOL module with an electrical power output greater than 50 kWe, capable of recovering waste heat resources from 200°C.