Heating and cooling with waste heat from industry
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Heating and cooling in the future will utilise energy gained from waste heat which will be distributed at low temperature using district heating and cooling networks. It will thus make use of the heat wasted by cooling systems in supermarkets and fruit storage facilities which up to now has simply been released untapped into the atmosphere. South Tyrol's EURAC Institute for Renewable Energy is exploring this new technology in the "FLEXYNETS" project which is financed to the tune of two million euros by the European research programme "Horizon 2020". Yesterday, on the 7th July, the project partners finally met at EURAC to set things in motion.