EISER aims to develop ‘soft’ tools and methods and ‘hard’ industrial processes, accelerating the transition towards a sustainable society by improving process integration, enabling industrial symbiosis and cooperationwith other sectors, to improve energy and resource efficiency.
EISER will start from an industrial perspective and find long-term solutions that create value for both industrial partners and their contexts and help achieve sustainable development goals and energy transition. Theproject will recognize parallels in several countries and be based on concrete and highly innovative practical examples within pulp and paper industry, on how process integration and industry integration measures can be initiated and implemented.
EISER has three scopes, all with an industrial symbiosis mindset: 1) Symbiotic/Circular Process Design -to advance from linear resource set up when designing new plants and processes, towards a context aware design processenabling integration with nearby industrial processes and local resources. 2) Energy/Water Nexus -to improve strategies for process water consumption, to reduce and reuse water and to improve heat recovery and energy efficiency in supply and wastewater treatment.3) Efficient drying -to improve energy efficiency by use of heat pumps as well as other improvements within the drying process, its energy supply and by other means of heat recovery (than heat pumps).
The project connects the larger European transformative agenda and the growing focus on making use of the largest untapped energy source found today, waste heat, with the practical perspective of creating value and makingstrategic decisions connected to efficient energy use in industrial processes.
