The company’s demonstration center in Dallas, Texas, is showcasing the steam-generating Arcturus heat pump, which it claims is eight times more efficient than natural gas boilers and six times more efficient than electric boilers and thermal energy storage.
Texas-based Skyven Technologies has commissioned its Arcturus steam-generating heat pump (SGHP) demonstration project.
The facility, which operates in Dallas, Texas, can provide 1 MWth of boiler-quality steam generated by capturing waste heat. It showcases the company’s end-to-end process, starting from recovering and upcycling industrial heat to generating boiler-quality, emission-free steam.
The system features multi-stage flash technology via a cascading flash vessel (patent pending) that captures the waste heat. It also includes control systems that can monitor the grid load and automatically switch off during concurrent peak periods when the grid is energized. The control system can also perform real-time energy arbitrage between electricity and natural gas to optimize cost and emissions reductions.
Jacob Miller, CTO of Skyven Technologies, said the control system enables seamless integration and ease of operation in industrial facilities. “We built Arcturus to maximize performance, reliability and replicability in energy-intensive industrial manufacturing facilities around the world,” he added.
Skyven Technologies says the SGHP demonstration center currently has a coefficient of performance (COP) of 6.5, which the company says is industry leading, eight times more efficient than natural gas boilers and six times more efficient than electric boilers and thermal energy storage. The company adds that it is working towards a COP of 8.
Arun Gupta, founder and CEO of Skyven Technologies, added that the Arcturus product line scales from 1 MWth to 60 MWth of zero-emission steam production. “[This makes] it is an ideal solution for a wide range of process steam needs in manufacturing sectors such as food and beverage, ethanol, chemicals, pulp and paper, and more,” said Gupta.
In September 2024, Skyven Technologies announced that this was the case provide its Acturus heat pump system to an ethanol plant in Medina, New York.
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