Transforming Programme WP14 - E – Resource and Energy efficiency and renewables

Tech4Decard aims to respond to market gaps and accelerate, through methodologies, tools and technologies, the carbon neutrality of industrial processes and their energy self-sufficiency based on local production of renewable-based thermal and electrical energy and the use of renewable gases such as green hydrogen.

Based on this general objective, the following specific objectives are to be achieved:

(i) Defining Sectoral Roadmaps for Carbon Neutrality in the Manufacturing Industry;

(ii) Promote the direct integration of low-cost, high-efficiency renewable energies (concentrated solar thermal) to directly supply heat to low and medium temperature industrial thermal processes (low and medium exergy) - predominant in industry;

(iii) Developing and implementing energy storage systems to increase flexibility in industrial energy demand;

(iv) Developing technologies for supplying heat to industrial processes using renewable gases (particularly hydrogen), with the resulting efficiency and economic benefits;

(v) Developing technologies, facilitating tools and business models to promote the implementation of industrial symbiosis projects (with a focus on the recovery and reuse of waste heat);

(vi) Develop advanced tools and sensors for thermal energy management with a view to optimizing industrial thermal processes from the point of view of energy costs and reducing the carbon footprint;

(vii) Demonstrate a carbon-neutral production line pilot unit;

(viii) Develop a technological platform to promote the use of biomass in industry.