The project, valued at approximately $920,000, will be installed at a canning and pouch packaging facility in the UK. At the heart of the system will be Thermal Energy’s proprietary direct contact heat recovery technology, FLU-ACE®. This unit will draw flue gases from three boiler exhausts and recover waste energy from a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) heating jacket. The recaptured energy will then preheat process water required during the cooking, canning, and sterilization processes, and heat boiler make up water used to create steam.
Once commissioned, the system is expected to deliver an annual fuel saving of $383,300 and reduce the site’s carbon emissions by 2,868 tonnes a year – helping to support the Group’s company-wide targets.
“We’ve worked with this customer for a number of years, having previously installed our high efficiency, low maintenance GEM™ steam traps at various European sites.” said William Crossland, CEO of Thermal Energy.
“This project is particularly exciting as the FLU-ACE® unit is integrating with the site CHP. As many facilities turn to cogeneration (or CHP) to increase efficiency, heat recovery can be used to help take an already efficient system from between 60 to 80% into the high 90s, maximizing ROI for the customer. It is applicable across industries and will be an area of focus we continue to develop as a company.” |