The aim of the IEA DHC Annex TS2 is to advance the development and transformation of district heating towards "4th generation district heating". To this end, the prerequisites are to be developed with the help of international experts.
The major goal of the project DSM_OPT is the development of a demand-side management (DSM) decision support system toolbox for optimal industrial process scheduling.
The NetZero2040 initiative has set itself the goal of placing innovative Austrian industrial companies at the centre of climate neutrality in 2040. The aim is to develop concrete strategies and solutions in the area of innovative key technologies "Made in Austria" and bring them to market maturity.
Thermal energy storage technologies play an enabling role for the further integration of renewable heat sources in the energy system, from domestic applications through district heating and industrial applications to the power sector. When higher temperatures, volume restrictions or very long storage periods come into play, new compact thermal storage technologies are needed. These compact thermal storage technologies need further development in order to be applicable on the markets. This is the motivation for the international collaboration in this IEA Task58/Annex33: to further improve the storage materials and components, based on a better knowledge of the underlying physics and chemistry of compact thermal energy storages (latent and thermochemical storages).
Within the project ReWaCEM resources from wastewater from metal processing industry were recovered in 4 pilot demonstration sites by diffusion dialysis and membrane distillation.
Transformation of the District Heating system in Lviv (Ukraine) requires great efforts and investments to be reliable, economic and competitive. AEE INTEC supports local stakeholders in this process.
The BIMpeco project develops and makes available workflows and data structures for the digital life cycle-based management of building products and their environmentally relevant properties.
The aim of the "Anergy2Plus" project is to take a holistic approach to the design, construction and ultimately the use of a residential quarter in the context of energy supply. In the area of thermal energy supply, the demonstration of a supply concept based on cold district heating is intended to create a project on the way to a plus-energy quarter. The demonstration will be supported by a comprehensive monitoring concept. In successive construction phases, further innovative measures will be considered at component and system level. Measures for user integration are embedded in the demonstration, operation and further planning.
The international IEA IETS Annex 15 follows a multi-disciplinary approach to the integrated use of industrial waste heat and aims at optimizing energy efficiency in a global context.
The HIPSTERS project deals with fundamental research into an innovative extraction technology and the best extraction agents in order to continuously dissolve proteins directly from biogenic food residue suspensions and recover them for further processing.