Energy-intensive industries, while being fundamental to the economy, are both major energy users and major greenhouse gas emitters. The EU is addressing this challenge by funding research and innovation in climate-neutral and circular industries. Energy-intensive industry (EII) sectors need to reduce their carbon footprint and accelerate the transition to climate neutrality by providing affordable and effective clean technology solutions. These efforts will support the EU’s long-term environmental goals, while contributing to energy independence and security as well as resource autonomy for Europe. This new CORDIS Results Pack focuses on 12 Horizon 2020 research projects, funded within the SPIRE partnership, that demonstrate technological pathways for decarbonisation, efficiency and circularity in EIIs. They include a range of technologies that can reduce the CO2 emissions of current processes, replace the need for fossil fuels, reduce the energy and resource consumption and create new production routes with a lower environmental impact.
Authors
European Health and Digital Executive Agency, European Commission, Publications Office of the European Union
- Catalogue number
- ZZ-AK-24-013-EN-N ZZ-AK-24-013-EN-Q ZZ-AK-24-013-EN-C
- Citation
- European Commission, European Health and Digital Executive Agency, Publications Office of the European Union, CORDIS results pack on energy-intensive industries , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/948726
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/110 https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/500055 https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/948726
- ISBN
- 978-92-78-44146-3
- ISSN
- 2599-8293
- Pages
- 00028
- Published in
- Belgium
- Size
- 4.7x297.0x100.0MM
- Themes
- Energy research
- weight
- 94.0
Table of Contents
- CORDIS Results Pack on energy-intensive industries 1
- Contents 2
- Editorial 2
- Materials artificial intelligence tool poised to advance energy-intensive industries 3
- Driving innovative materials to market success 3
- Pioneering methodologies in material evaluation and design 4
- Promising benefits 4
- Transforming the process industry with four levels of automation 5
- Digital transformation enabled by cognitive solutions 5
- Modular, scalable, open-source platform expands impact 5
- Demonstrable success in diverse industries 5
- Accelerating the digitisation and decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries 7
- Big data handling, machine learning models and digital twins 8
- Accelerating digitisation - and decarbonisation - of process industries 8
- Advanced engineering materials and components lasting longer in industrial applications under extreme conditions 9
- Challenges hindering sustainability in hot stamping 9
- Material innovations to address challenges in hot stamping 10
- Advanced manufacturing techniques for higher-performance components 10
- Advanced chemical technology transforms non-recyclable plastic waste into valuable chemicals 11
- Innovative recycling technology nearing commercial stage 11
- Marking a shift from existing plastic recycling methods 12
- Transitioning to smart automation benefits the metal industry and the environment 13
- An evolutionary leap in the digital transition 13
- Sensor technologies, data analytics and process control 13
- Flexible tools that support industry and the environment 14
- Novel and smart industry solutions for water waste prevention 15
- Targeting energy production, mining and electroplating 15
- Smart water separation technologies 15
- Turning an industrial byproduct into bio-sustainable chemicals 17
- From vanillin to chemicals 17
- All products validated by industrial end users 18
- Mission accomplished, but more work ahead 18
- New technologies make the production of manganese alloys more energy efficient 19
- Impact of the ore preheating 19
- New kiln and furnace design 19
- Alternative energy sources to fuel the new units 19
- Tailor-made solutions for retrofitting of processes improve sustainability in diverse process industries 21
- Decision support for retrofitting options 22
- Biobased fuels and a circular economy 22
- EIIs: modest relative changes have absolute long-term impact 22
- Retrofit sensors and advanced process control enable reuse of low-quality metal scrap 23
- High-tech sensors enable metal scrap analysis in bulk form 23
- Sensors and ICT tools save energy and materials 23
- Easy replication in other EIIs 24
- Steel made with electricity offers great potential for large carbon emission reductions 25
- Towards carbon-neutral steel manufacturing 26
- Drastic emission reductions and significant cost savings 26
- CORDIS Results Pack 27
- RESULTS PACK ON sustainable processing of mineral resources 28
