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How to capture steam to improve energy efficiency, profitability or steam grid balancing?
Industrial operations are usually designed with back-up solutions to cope with under-supply and volatility of heat. In case of over-supply, heat dumping mechanisms are used to keep systems running, making production processes more expensive and less efficient. Trips in these processes can impose even more significant economic production impacts.
Our solution opens ways to avoid steam dumping or wasting natural gas, and also allows boosting power generation in big industrial clusters or power plants. By plugging ENERGYNESTs ThermalBattery™ into industrial operations, (excess) steam is captured, stored, and recycled into new production cycles. Heat is therefore no longer lost when there is no direct offtake, but is instead transformed into energy and green steam on demand for 24/7 use. The integrated storage system enables industrial operators to effectively balance their steam grids, increasing the security of steam supply, generating profitable fuel savings or extra profit from power generation, and ultimately decreasing operating costs.
Steam power plants and steam generation are critical elements of any network’s generation portfolio but are often punished for their inflexibility. The ThermalBattery™ acts like an extraction by diverting live steam from the boiler away from the turbine when compelled and discharging back into the steam water cycle when opportune. The thermal storage responds within seconds to any change in load, or going from charge to discharge, enabling for the plant’s participation in a myriad of power markets and balancing the local steam grid and steam production. With fast ramping capabilities, the plant is also enabled for frequency regulation and participation in the reserve market.
Tell us about your energy needs, and we’ll help you find an innovative renewable storage solution – right here, right now.
Tell us about your energy needs, and we’ll help you find an innovative renewable storage solution – right here, right now.
