IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v16y2024i5p1733-d1342190.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Low-Pressure Steam Generation with Concentrating Solar Energy and Different Heat Upgrade Technologies: Potential in the European Industry

Author

Listed:
  • Jorge Payá

    (Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería Energética, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

  • Antonio Cazorla-Marín

    (Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería Energética, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

  • Cordin Arpagaus

    (Institute for Energy Systems, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, CH-9471 Buchs, Switzerland)

  • José Luis Corrales Ciganda

    (TECNALIA, Basque Research and Tecnology Alliance (BRTA), Area Anardi 5, 20730 Azpeitia, Spain)

  • Abdelrahman H. Hassan

    (Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería Energética, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
    Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt)

Abstract

The industry is currently responsible for around 21% of the total CO 2 emissions, mainly due to heat production with fossil fuel burners. There are already different technologies on the market that can potentially reduce CO 2 emissions. Nevertheless, the first step for their introduction is to analyze their potential on a global scale by detecting in which countries each of them is more attractive, given their energy prices and resources. The present work involves a techno-economic analysis of different alternatives to replace industrial gas boilers for low-pressure steam production at 120 °C and 150 °C. Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) was compared with Electric Boilers (EBs), High-Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHPs), and Absorption Heat Transformers (AHTs). SHIP systems have the potential to reach payback periods in the range of 4 to 5 years in countries with Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) values above 1400 kWh/m 2 /year, which is reached in Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Romania. HTHPs and AHTs lead to the lowest payback periods, Levelized Cost of Heat (LCOH), and highest CO 2 emission savings. For both AHTs and HTHPs, payback periods of below 1.5 years can be reached, particularly in countries with electricity-to-gas price ratios below 2.0.

Suggested Citation

  • Jorge Payá & Antonio Cazorla-Marín & Cordin Arpagaus & José Luis Corrales Ciganda & Abdelrahman H. Hassan, 2024. "Low-Pressure Steam Generation with Concentrating Solar Energy and Different Heat Upgrade Technologies: Potential in the European Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-22, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:5:p:1733-:d:1342190
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/5/1733/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/5/1733/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Arpagaus, Cordin & Bless, Frédéric & Uhlmann, Michael & Schiffmann, Jürg & Bertsch, Stefan S., 2018. "High temperature heat pumps: Market overview, state of the art, research status, refrigerants, and application potentials," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 985-1010.
    2. McMillan, Colin A. & Ruth, Mark, 2019. "Using facility-level emissions data to estimate the technical potential of alternative thermal sources to meet industrial heat demand," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(C), pages 1077-1090.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Cox, Jordan & Belding, Scott & Lowder, Travis, 2022. "Application of a novel heat pump model for estimating economic viability and barriers of heat pumps in dairy applications in the United States," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
    2. Schoeneberger, Carrie A. & McMillan, Colin A. & Kurup, Parthiv & Akar, Sertac & Margolis, Robert & Masanet, Eric, 2020. "Solar for industrial process heat: A review of technologies, analysis approaches, and potential applications in the United States," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
    3. Peter Nagovnak & Maedeh Rahnama Mobarakeh & Christian Diendorfer & Gregor Thenius & Hans Böhm & Thomas Kienberger, 2024. "Cost-Driven Assessment of Technologies’ Potential to Reach Climate Neutrality in Energy-Intensive Industries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-34, February.
    4. Liu, Hua & Zhao, Baiyang & Zhang, Zhiping & Li, Hongbo & Hu, Bin & Wang, R.Z., 2020. "Experimental validation of an advanced heat pump system with high-efficiency centrifugal compressor," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 213(C).
    5. Els van der Roest & Stijn Beernink & Niels Hartog & Jan Peter van der Hoek & Martin Bloemendal, 2021. "Towards Sustainable Heat Supply with Decentralized Multi-Energy Systems by Integration of Subsurface Seasonal Heat Storage," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-31, November.
    6. Guo, Hao & Gong, Maoqiong & Qin, Xiaoyu, 2019. "Performance analysis of a modified subcritical zeotropic mixture recuperative high-temperature heat pump," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 237(C), pages 338-352.
    7. Ron-Hendrik Hechelmann & Jan-Peter Seevers & Alexander Otte & Jan Sponer & Matthias Stark, 2020. "Renewable Energy Integration for Steam Supply of Industrial Processes—A Food Processing Case Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-20, May.
    8. Dong, Yixiu & Yan, Hongzhi & Wang, Ruzhu, 2024. "Significant thermal upgrade via cascade high temperature heat pump with low GWP working fluids," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 190(PA).
    9. Marina, A. & Spoelstra, S. & Zondag, H.A. & Wemmers, A.K., 2021. "An estimation of the European industrial heat pump market potential," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    10. Schlosser, F. & Jesper, M. & Vogelsang, J. & Walmsley, T.G. & Arpagaus, C. & Hesselbach, J., 2020. "Large-scale heat pumps: Applications, performance, economic feasibility and industrial integration," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 133(C).
    11. Stewart, W.R. & Velez-Lopez, E. & Wiser, R. & Shirvan, K., 2021. "Economic solution for low carbon process heat: A horizontal, compact high temperature gas reactor," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 304(C).
    12. Els van der Roest & Theo Fens & Martin Bloemendal & Stijn Beernink & Jan Peter van der Hoek & Ad J. M. van Wijk, 2021. "The Impact of System Integration on System Costs of a Neighborhood Energy and Water System," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-33, May.
    13. Hao, Yinping & He, Qing & Du, Dongmei, 2020. "A trans-critical carbon dioxide energy storage system with heat pump to recover stored heat of compression," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 1099-1108.
    14. Jesper, Mateo & Schlosser, Florian & Pag, Felix & Walmsley, Timothy Gordon & Schmitt, Bastian & Vajen, Klaus, 2021. "Large-scale heat pumps: Uptake and performance modelling of market-available devices," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    15. Li, Xiaoqiong & Wang, Xiaoyan & Zhang, Yufeng & Fang, Lei & Deng, Na & Zhang, Yan & Jin, Zhendong & Yu, Xiaohui & Yao, Sheng, 2020. "Experimental and economic analysis with a novel ejector-based detection system for thermodynamic measurement of compressors," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(C).
    16. Mateu-Royo, Carlos & Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín & Mota-Babiloni, Adrián & Molés, Francisco & Amat-Albuixech, Marta, 2019. "Experimental exergy and energy analysis of a novel high-temperature heat pump with scroll compressor for waste heat recovery," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 253(C), pages 1-1.
    17. Oliver Gregor Gorbach & Noha Saad Hussein & Jessica Thomsen, 2021. "Impact of Internal Carbon Prices on the Energy System of an Organisation’s Facilities in Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom Compared to Potential External Carbon Prices," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-41, July.
    18. Lincoln, Benjamin James & Kong, Lana & Pineda, Alyssa Mae & Walmsley, Timothy Gordon, 2022. "Process integration and electrification for efficient milk evaporation systems," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 258(C).
    19. Umair Yaqub Qazi, 2022. "Future of Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel for Next-Generation Industrial Applications; Challenges and Expected Opportunities," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-40, June.
    20. Albà, C.G. & Alkhatib, I.I.I. & Llovell, F. & Vega, L.F., 2023. "Hunting sustainable refrigerants fulfilling technical, environmental, safety and economic requirements," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:5:p:1733-:d:1342190. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.