RE-WITCH

🔬 [RE-WITCH Explains] What are MOFs Metal Organic Frameworks (#MOFs) are advanced materials with a unique porous structure that enables them to trap and store gases or liquids efficiently. Known for their high surface area and tunable properties, MOFs offer exciting opportunities for improving energy efficiency in adsorption cooling processes. 💡 In the RE-WITCH project, MOFs are being studied as potential adsorbent materials to enhance adsorption system performance. Their ability to optimize the adsorption process aligns with the project’s mission to develop thermally-driven cooling technologies powered by renewable and waste heat sources. 🔍 By incorporating MOFs, the project aims to deliver compact, efficient, and sustainable solutions, reducing industrial cooling's environmental impact. 🚀 Stay tuned to learn more about the innovative materials and cutting-edge technology of RE-WITCH! 🔗 Visit the RE-WITCH project page https://lnkd.in/eJEXkbgb #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability #IndustrialCooling #REWITCH

🚀 [RE-WITCH Explains] What is an #IMPELLER In the world of industrial cooling and heating, efficiency is everything – and impellers play a key role in making that happen! ⚙️ But what exactly is an impeller? An impeller is a rotating component that increases the pressure and flow of a fluid. By accelerating the fluid outward from the center of rotation, it powers essential processes in cooling systems, making them more efficient and effective. 💡 Why is this important for RE-WITCH? In our drive to create sustainable industrial cooling through adsorption and absorption technologies, impellers are vital to ensuring smooth fluid dynamics and maximizing energy transfer. This enhances the performance of systems that harness waste heat and renewable energy sources. ℹ️ A small component with big impacts – helping industries save energy, reduce emissions, and embrace innovative solutions! 🔗 Visit the RE-WITCH project page 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJEXkbgb #DigitalInnovation #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability #REWITCH

🚀 [RE-WITCH Explains] What is the SIL Approach? 🔧 To achieve innovation, testing and optimization are key steps in ensuring RE-WITCH’s technologies are efficient and reliable. That’s where the Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) approach comes in! 📊 What is SIL? The #SIL Approach creates a virtual testing environment where control systems for RE-WITCH’s technologies are simulated. This allows us to fine-tune control logics, test configurations, and optimize processes before deployment, ensuring maximum efficiency. ⚙️ How does SIL power RE-WITCH? 📌 Simulation & Validation: SIL allows us to simulate sequences like start-up, shutdown, and production, ensuring systems respond optimally to real-world conditions. 📌 Optimization: By testing plant configurations virtually, we identify the best strategies to enhance energy efficiency and performance. 📌Energy Savings: Optimized SIL controls can increase overall energy efficiency by 5-10%, supporting RE-WITCH’s mission for sustainable industrial cooling and heating. 💡 With SIL, RE-WITCH brings its technologies closer to real-world application, ensuring every system is optimized for sustainability and performance. 🤝 This method guarantees that our control systems, developed in collaboration with Gruppo Sigla, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pragma-IoT, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Technische Universität Berlin and IDP Ingeniería, Medio ambiente y Arquitectura ready to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions. 🎅🎄 As the year ends, we thank you for joining us on this journey through #innovation. Stay tuned in 2025 for more exciting updates on how RE-WITCH is revolutionizing energy systems. Until then, happy holidays and warm wishes from all of us! #SoftwareInTheLoop #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability #REWITCH

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🌍 [RE-WITCH Explains] What is the DT Platform (Digital Twin Platform)? In the digital era, simulation and modeling are changing the way we approach energy systems. For this reason, the Digital Twin Platform (DT Platform) represents one of the main elements of RE-WITCH’s strategy for the optimization of industrial processes and energy efficiency. 📊 What is a Digital Twin Platform? A Digital Twin Platform creates a virtual model of real-world systems, enabling simulation, monitoring, and optimization in real time. In RE-WITCH, the DT Platform allows us to visualize, test, and refine our technologies, from heat recovery systems to hybrid heat pumps, prior to their actual implementation in the real world. 🔍 How does the DT Platform find its application in RE-WITCH? 📌 Real-Time Monitoring: The DT Platform enables real-time tracking of energy flow and system performance, ensuring maximum efficiency. 📌Simulation and Testing: By simulating different operational scenarios, it helps refine system performance before implementation. 📌Seamless Integration: The platform ensures that RE-WITCH technologies are smoothly integrated into industrial settings with minimal disruption. 💡 Through the DT Platform, RE-WITCH brings the future of energy innovation to the present, combining advanced technology with sustainability. 🤝 RE-WITCH is working on this approach with IDP Ingeniería, Medio ambiente y Arquitectura, dr. jakob energy research GmbH & Co.KG, Gruppo Sigla, TVP SOLAR SA, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Sorption Technologies GmbH, BS Nova Apparatebau GmbH, STAM S.r.l., Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Pragma-IoT, Gradyent 🚀 Stay tuned for more insights on our LinkedIn page and website! 🔗 Visit the RE-WITCH project page 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJEXkbgb #DigitalTwin #DigitalInnovation #Sustainability #REWITCH #EnergyEfficiency

💡Webinar recap! RE-WITCH joined the recent webinar, ‘Don’t waste the warmth: how industrial heat pumps can recover excess heat’, hosted by the European Heat Pump Association, with experts gathered from three EU-funded projects Push2Heat, SPIRIT Horizon Europe Project, META BUILD Horizon Europe Project. During the webinar we learned about: ➡️ The great potential of waste heat to help industry decarbonise. ➡️ Heat pumps in action! Individual cases from Germany and Spain were presented where large heat pumps have been installed. ➡️ The need to adopt a systems approach to explore synergies across sectors. ➕ For more detail, read our short recap here and find out the innovative heating and cooling solutions REWITCH is developing 👉 https://lnkd.in/eQGJ266Q #wasteheat #heatpumps

💻 Don't miss next week's #webinar on “Renewable Cooling to Answer Climate and Energy Challenges”!    11 December | 10:00 am CET | Online   Register👉 https://lnkd.in/eTVTJiRz   Discover innovative recommendations, industry insights, and strategies to support the #sustainable growth of the #cooling sector in Europe and beyond. 🌱  Romanian Geoexchange Society | RED srl | Termoline | Technical University of Munich | Università degli Studi di Padova | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

🌍 [RE-WITCH Explains] What is BIM (Building Information Modelling)? As part of RE-WITCH’s commitment to innovation and efficiency, Building Information Modelling (BIM) plays a crucial role in the design, integration, and optimization of our advanced energy systems. 📊 What is BIM? BIM is a digital modeling process that provides a shared, real-time platform for designing, managing, and visualizing systems and infrastructure. For RE-WITCH, BIM ensures that all technological components, from heat exchangers to heat pumps, are optimally designed and integrated into industrial settings. 🔍 BIM’s Role in RE-WITCH 📌 System Visualization: BIM enables detailed visualizations and simulations, allowing us to identify potential inefficiencies before implementation. 📌 Integration Across Components: It ensures smooth coordination between technologies, reducing installation time and costs. 📌 Scalability: BIM supports the replicability of RE-WITCH solutions across various industrial applications, adapting to site-specific needs. 💡 Through BIM, RE-WITCH achieves higher precision in project design and execution, paving the way for a future where digitalization and sustainability go hand in hand. 🚀 Until our next weekly post stay tuned! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJEXkbgb #BuildingInformationModelling #BIM #DigitalInnovation #EnergyEfficiency #REWITCH

🌍 [RE-WITCH Explains] What is Life Cycle Costing (LCC)? When it comes to evaluating innovative technologies, it’s not just about their environmental impact but also their economic viability. That’s where Life Cycle Costing (LCC) comes in—a key method used in RE-WITCH to ensure that our solutions make financial sense while delivering sustainability. 📊 What is LCC? Life Cycle Costing is a methodology that considers all costs incurred throughout the lifetime of a product or service—from initial investment and installation to operational and maintenance costs, as well as end-of-life expenses. By taking this comprehensive approach, RE-WITCH ensures that its advanced cooling systems are not only environmentally sustainable but also economically viable. 🔍 How is LCC Applied in RE-WITCH? 📌 Economic Assessment: LCC complements environmental analysis by providing the financial data needed to determine the affordability of innovative cooling and heat recovery systems. 📌 Replicable Business Models: It supports the creation of tailored business models for various industries, demonstrating how RE-WITCH technologies can scale effectively. 📌 KPIs for Cost-Effectiveness: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like CAPEX, OPEX, and maintenance costs are monitored to evaluate the economic performance of RE-WITCH technologies. These insights help identify areas for cost optimization while maintaining high efficiency and environmental standards. 💡 Bringing Value to Industries Through LCC analysis, RE-WITCH demonstrates the potential for reducing operational costs by up to 30%, ensuring a payback period of less than 6 years for its innovative solutions. This approach highlights the alignment of cutting-edge technology with real-world industrial needs, making a compelling case for adoption. 🌱Stay tuned to discover more about the technologies shaping the sustainable future of industrial cooling! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJEXkbgb #LifeCycleCosting #LCC #EnergyEfficiency #WasteHeatRecovery #IndustrialCooling #REWITCH

Circularity concepts and capturing waste heat in the pulp and paper industry: interesting resources! The pulp and paper industry advances circularity by integrating design, production and recycling, reducing resource use and enhancing material reuse. An article from the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership shares a report by UNECE/FAO Forests delving into the various stages of the pulp and paper value chain, from raw material sourcing to production and recycling, highlighting how circularity is achieved through high quality recovered paper and side stream utilization. It underscores the industry's progress from being resource intensive to actively reducing water, energy, and material consumption. The paper also explores initiatives within the pulp and paper sector aimed at improving recycling rates and creating higher-value products that align with circular economy principles. >> https://lnkd.in/eY_m_Kfw Another article from the European Heat Pump Association focuses on a French paper factory, drying its paper pulp using its own waste energy. How? By replacing gas with a heat pump which blasts 140°C heat in order to dry the pulp that makes the paper. >> https://lnkd.in/dTCqEAgE Did you know? Cartiera dell-Adda, a paper producer, is involved in RE-WITCH as a replication site (and maybe a demo case!). The project innovative efficient thermally-driven cooling and heating technologies for industrial processes, game-changers solutions, will be tested in CDA in Italy to unlock the potential of low-grade waste and renewable heat use. Paper Board Alliance