Resumen
As part of the EU strategic agenda to build a climate-neutral and green Europe, increasing energy
efficiency of industry is among the priorities of the Green Deal. Process heat has a significant
weight in the total energy demand of the European industry and increased energy efficiency of
industry through the recovery and upgrade of waste heat is one of the first steps towards
decarbonization in the industrial sector. Although different heat upgrade technologies exist, their
wide deployment is not taking place due to different technical and non- technical barriers
hindering the uptake. PUSH2HEAT will aim to overcome these implementation barriers and push forward
the market potential and business models of heat upgrade technologies by real full scale
demonstration of different heat upgrade systems in relevant industrial sectors with high waste heat
recovery and upgrading potential, with supply temperature in the range 90-160ºC. Different heat
upgrade technologies will be scaled-up to optimize their efficiency and economic performance and
demonstrated in selected industrial demo-sites covering a representative sample of the most
relevant industrial processes with heat recovery potential. Economic and country specific
regulatory barriers, summed up to the technical ones, greatly influence the deployment of the heat
upgrade technologies. To tackle this, PUSH2HEAT intends to demonstrate suitable busines models and
dedicated exploitation roadmaps for a higher penetration of heat upgrade systems aiming to
contribute to meet the industry decarbonization targets. For achieving its ambitions, PUSH2HEAT
consortium gathers different heat upgrade technology manufacturers, industrial end-users where
demonstrations will take place, engineering and panies as well as expert RTD partners in the field,
together with the European association representing the heat
upgrade technologies stakeholders.
