Print Email Facebook Twitter The techno-economic integrability of high-temperature heat pumps for decarbonizing process heat in the food and beverages industry Title The techno-economic integrability of high-temperature heat pumps for decarbonizing process heat in the food and beverages industry Author Dumont, Marina (Universiteit Leiden) Wang, Ranran (Universiteit Leiden) Wenzke, Diana (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Blok, K. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Heijungs, Reinout (Universiteit Leiden; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Date 2023 Abstract High-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) are an emerging technology to improve overall process efficiency and reduce energy demand while enabling a switch from fossil fuels to renewable electricity. New industrial HTHP technologies aim to achieve an output heat temperature of 250 °C, suitable for decarbonising the food and beverages industry considering its temperature requirements of <250 °C. Here, we employ a bottom-up approach to investigate the techno-economic feasibility of integrating new HTHP technologies into heat processes of the German food and beverages industry and estimate emissions reduction potentials under waste heat scenarios. Our results indicate that the new HTHP technologies could meet 12 TWh of process heat demand in the German food and beverages industry and cut emissions by 9% considering Germany's current electricity fuel mix. A modest carbon tax of 38 €/t CO2 eq. or higher makes the HTHPs cost-competitive with an optimised fossil fuel-based alternative. Subject GHG emissions abatementHigh-temperature heat pumpsIndustrial decarbonisationTechno-economic assessment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d3a38c97-88fb-4d64-bdc1-756bbe5d1c78 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106605 Embargo date 2023-07-01 ISSN 0921-3449 Source Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 188 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Marina Dumont, Ranran Wang, Diana Wenzke, K. Blok, Reinout Heijungs Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0921344922004396_main.pdf 649.27 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d3a38c97-88fb-4d64-bdc1-756bbe5d1c78/datastream/OBJ/view