The Austrian manufacturer said its new heat pump is an ideal solution for industrial and district heating market segments. The system features an advanced rotor system, utilizing diffusion bonding technology, which is said to enable higher temperature increases and greater manufacturability thanks to fewer components.
Austrian heat pump specialist Ecop Technologies has launched its latest high-temperature industrial heat pump, a 700 kW system with output temperatures up to 200 C.
The system is designed for the recovery and reuse of waste heat and supports applications such as process steam, washing, cooking, distillation and pasteurization, as well as district heating.
The new model features an advanced rotor system, using diffusion bond technology, which enables higher temperature increases and greater manufacturability thanks to fewer components. It also has a smaller footprint.
The system has a coefficient of performance of 4.0 to 7.0, depending on the customer’s integration. It can adjust the output temperature by varying the rotation speed, or provide constant temperatures in an environment with variable temperature sources. It supports direct output temperatures up to 200 C with a maximum temperature rise of 100 K.
The heat pump weighs 9 tons, requires a power supply of 280 kW and measures 1.5 m x 6 m x 2.5 m.
Additionally, it supports up to 30K heat source cooling and can change speed to accommodate different heat source temperatures, enabling operational flexibility. The refrigerants are non-toxic and non-flammable, and are not based on fluorinated greenhouse gases.
The Austrian company said it will supply two heat pumps for heat removal and heat filling functions in Germany’s first underground storage facility to be built in Meldorf, Germany. The facility will provide hot water and heating to the community.
“The storage is heated with the residual heat from the nearby heating factory and, together with our heat pumps, will feed the Meldorf district heating network. However, in the future, a solar thermal installation is planned to also heat the storage,” said Fabian Sacharowitz, CEO of ecop. pv magazine.
Ecop, founded in 2007 and backed by an investor group including EIT Innoenergy, based in the Netherlands, Fill, an Austria-based mechanical engineering company, and two compatriot venture funds FSP Ventures and Upper Austrian High-Tech Fund, recently won the €8.5 million prize ($9.2 million) in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator.
“With its unique solution, ecop breaks new ground in heat pump technology, making it applicable for some of the most difficult to combat industrial processes and district heating at high temperatures,” said Christian Müller, EIT. Board member and CEO of the German language region Innoenergy.
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