Energy efficiency in the food industry
The food industry requires a lot of heat and cold. The aim of the Food Pinch research project is to use this more efficiently and to put waste heat flows to further use. Researchers are developing a dynamic pinch analysis and testing it with three users. The specialist portal Industrie-Energieforschung has published an article about the Food Pinch research project, which you can read below (The article is only available in English).
Food Pinch is a research and development project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection with a duration of four years.
Funding reference: 03EN2031A.
R&D partner of the project: Chair of Technical Thermodynamics (LTT) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
The food industry requires a lot of heat and cold. The aim of the Food Pinch research project is to use heat and cold more efficiently and to put waste heat flows to further use. Researchers are developing and testing a dynamic pinch analysis for this purpose.
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In the Food Pinch R&D project, we are developing innovative processes to significantly reduce the energy consumption of heating and cooling supply systems in industrial plants and leverage potential savings.
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