The Business Booster (TBB) is an event that brings together 1,000+ attendees from over 40 countries, consisting of start-ups, energy industry representatives, financial communities, policy makers and regulators.
Aeinnova has been invited to participate and our CSO attended the conference. There he presented our LIFE project (HEAT-R) in front of about 200 people.
AEInnova has been participate in the Oil & Gas Conference, an event aimed at promoting intersectoral relations, as well as networking between the different actors and “key players”.
In there we presented our technology as well as the our Heat-R Life project. With nearly 300 attendees we could contact with 9 important people related to the Oil&Gas sector, our primary target.
Global Power & Energy Exhibition (GPEX) – co-located with Gastech – is the world’s leading gas and LNG showcase, the better place to find the latest strategies and technologies needed to adapt to the energy transition. The firts edition was developed in Barcelona and we had the pleasure of having a small stand there.
Our experience has been really positive counting 672 flyers, 76 contacts, 18 face-to-face meetings. Amazing!
Our president, Dr. Raúl Aragonés, and our CEO, David Comellas, have attended the LIFE platform meeting on climate change mitigation in energy intensive industries in Utrecht, the Netherlands (26-27 September 2018).
The meeting is hosted by LIFE OPTIMELT (http://lifeoptimelt.com/announcement.htm), a project that is recovering waste heat in glass manufacturing, and is organised in cooperation with the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA).
The two-day gathering included plenary sessions on the policy context, industry commitments and technological solutions; workshops; a poster session; and field visits to the OPTIMELT project at the Libbey Leerdam glassware factory and Tata Steel’s Horizon 2020 project, HIsarna, both in the Netherlands.
A Heat-R energy recovery station will be installed in a configuration of 3 WHRU modules, 2 with heat column system and a larger one with heat pipes.
The first system will consist of 4 40×40 thermoelectric cells and one fan and the second, consisting of 6 40×40 thermoelectric cells and 2 fans.
According to the result of the thermographic analysis, it is established that the combustion gas duct of the biomass boiler is the favorable point for the placement of WHRU units. For reasons of ease of installation, WHRU units will be located at the top of the rectangular flue gas outlet duct at its exit from the cyclone and before the exit of the boiler building duct to the bag filter.
The working cycle of the biomass boiler is 24 hours and the flue gas outlet temperature varies between 250-300 ° C depending on the fuel used, which may be strains and branches and/or forest masses. The ambient temperature is between 35-45ºC.
The building of the boiler room where the chimney is located has a height of approximately 12 m. The chimney can be accessed by a cat ladder, but the floor next to the chimney must be considered as not practicable as part of the ceiling of the boiler room.
It is proposed to install 2 WHRU modules that will penetrate one of the WOGA boiler gas outlet chimneys.
The WHRU units will be installed one on each side of the chimney 600 mm wide.
WHRU modules will be equipped with waterblocks for water cooling.
The cooling water distribution installation will be provided with traps to avoid the presence of air in the water circuit.
Each WHRU unit will consist of 6 waterblocks. Each waterblock will cool the cold face of 6 peltier cells. Therefore, each WHRU unit will consist of 36 peltier cells (6 waterblock x 6 peltier cells).
To maximize the effect of temperature on the WHRU collectors, a deflector will be installed inside the rectangular chimney.
For monitoring the correct functioning of the prototype, 3 types of sensor nodes will be installed:
Type 1-Temperature Node: Th, Tc and Tgases output.
Type 2-Node Wattmeter to measure the power generated by the system. Said node will be installed inside the electrical panel.
2 units will be installed. of type 1 sensor nodes (one for each WHRU module) and 1 unit of type 2 node.
A LoRa Gateway will be installed to collect all the data sent by the sensors. The Gateway will be installed inside the boiler room right next to the existing electrical panels. The Gateway will be powered from one of the existing boxes.
In order to start a thermoelectricity project, it is important to have a physical visit to the facilities in order to determine the waste heat ranges and the temperature in addition to the installation of the WHRU system. The technical visit was made at the Gomà-Camps facility in La Riba (Tarragona) on July 9th, 2018.
The Cluster of Efficient Energy of Catalonia (CEEC) organizes, annually, the Night of the Efficiency, an event that has become the meeting point for the main agents in the sector.
Aeinnova, an active member of the CEEC, had the honor of being a finalist in the Emergent awards aimed at rewarding the best start-ups in the field of energy efficiency.
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Aeinnova, an active member of the CEEC, had the honor of being a finalist in the Emergent awards aimed at rewarding the best start-ups in the field of energy efficiency.
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Aeinnova has been invited to participate in the Industry 4.0 & IIoT conference: Perspectives, challenges & experiences organized by Orbital 4.0 within the framework of the Industry 4th promotion of the Terrassa City Council.
In addition to Aeinnova, they participated in the Vodafone conference, presenting their communications technology NB-IoT and Esbelt as a company where Industry 4,0 innovation project has been implemented.
The global participation was around 25 people and there was a local impact on the media so we value our participation as very positive.
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