BAMBOO aims to develop new technologies that address energy and resource efficiency challenges in four intensive industries (steel, petrochemicals, minerals, and pulp and paper). BAMBOO scales promising technologies to adapt, test and validate them under real production conditions. The focus is on three main innovation pillars (i) waste heat recovery, (ii) electrical flexibility, and (iii) waste stream recovery. Demonstrable technologies include (a) industrial heat pumps, (b) Organic Rankine Cycles, (c) combustion monitoring and control devices, and (d) improved burners and hybrid processes that use energy from different carriers (waste heat, steam, and electricity) to refine solid biofuels. These activities are supported by the Energieinstitut in the form of quantitative accompanying research using life cycle assessment and environmental cost calculations.
To maximize their application and impact at the plant level, flexibility measures will be implemented in each demo case towards energy neutrality and merged into a horizontal decision support system for flexibility management. BAMBOO will enable intensive industries to make better decisions to become more competitive in natural resource use in a broader context.
The BAMBOO consortium includes strong industry participation: 6 large companies as end users and 3 SMEs as technology providers working with experienced research institutions.
