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SubscribeThe industrial energy transition depends on regulatory, legal, and policy frameworks that drive the transformation of energy markets and infrastructure. Consequently, this session explores the latest developments in decarbonisation policy challenges, the impact of RED III on third-party access, and the economic effects of digitalisation in energy-intensive industries.
This session focuses on the advancement, production, and integration of CO₂-neutral gases such as green hydrogen, bio-CH₄, and Syn-CH₄, serving as sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. The session will highlight scientific strategies for optimising and integrating these gases into existing and future energy systems.
Achieving climate neutrality in industry requires systemic innovations, future scenarios, and strategies that unlock efficiency potentials, provide actionable recommendations, and scale net-zero technologies across various sectors. This session explores the transformation towards a climate-neutral industry, including the integration of geothermal energy, cascading heat utilisation, and the impact of innovative heat pricing on district heating networks.
Innovative direct current solutions can make a significant contribution to the transformation and flexibilisation of industry. They simplify the system integration and coupling of renewable energies through the resource- and energy-efficient integration of electrical machines, PV systems, battery storage and e-mobility.
This Technology Talk is dedicated to innovative projects and solutions for the integration and implementation of direct current applications in industry.
This session will focus on industrial symbiosis highlighting how collaborative strategies in energy and material exchange can enhance energy efficiency and reduce material and energy consumption. The session focuses on innovative approaches to waste heat recovery, the optimisation of thermo-chemical processes, and the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries like steel processing.
This session explores innovative solutions for managing volatile energy generation through enhanced demand-response approaches in industry and the efficient design of production processes. Contributions will focus on optimising production scheduling, cross-factory energy and production integration, and demand response strategies to improve flexibility in various industrial contexts.
This session will focus on techno-economic approaches that maximise industrial flexibility, including innovative solutions for energy-based industrial redispatch provision, and the cost-benefit analysis of flexible systems. Contributions will examine how technological innovations and optimisation strategies can enhance flexibility in various industrial contexts, covering both technical and economic considerations
This session focuses on cutting-edge technologies and processes for capturing, utilising, and storing CO₂ emissions, particularly from hard-to-abate industrial sectors. Presentations in this session will explore the application of CCU and CCS technologies in industries like cement, investigate catalytic processes for CO₂ conversion, and introduce innovative methods for characterising materials used in CO₂ methanation, while considering both economic and ecological impacts.
This session focuses on innovative approaches in the circular economy, showcasing research on waste heat utilisation in thermo-chemical processes, life cycle assessment for sustainable steel industry transitions, and energy, water, and carbon flow optimisation in biopharmaceutical facilities. Presentations highlight key strategies for reducing environmental impact and enhancing resource efficiency.
At over 348 808 GWh per annum, the European paper and pulp industry has a particularly high energy demand. What role do energy efficiency, renewable gases, electrification, and the circular economy play in the decarbonisation of this sector? In this Technology Talk, we will explore the challenges and solutions facing the industry. Various system levels – from industry level to site level and down to the process and component level – will be presented and discussed, with insights into current innovative research projects.