IWAYS - Recycling of Heat, Water and Material across Multiple Sectors: Ceramic, Chemical and Steel Industry

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In the framework of the iWAYS project, a synergy between energy and water reclamation and exploitation is addressed by means of the development and the installation of a wide array of technologies in three different industrial sectors: ceramic tile manufacturing, aluminium fluoride production and steel tubes manufacturer. The aim of the project is the creation of customized and integrated systems to achieve a substantial reduction in the thermal waste and in the freshwater consumption; this is the principal challenge the iWAYS project is solving by developing a set of technologies capable of recovering water and energy from challenging exhaust streams for productive use in the industrial processes. iWAYS systems will then treat steam condensate to meet the water quality requirements of each industrial process, while the recovered heat will be used to reduce primary energy consumption. iWAYS will recover additional materials from flue gas such as valuable acids or particulates, improving the production’s raw material efficiency and reducing detrimental emissions to the environment. The iWAYS technology will provide a reduction in the freshwater consumption greater that the 30% in each industrial case; with regards to the energy recovery, iWAYS will recover 6 GWh/y in the ceramic sector, more than 5 GWh/y in the chemical scenario and approximately 1 GWh/y in the steel sector. The iWAYS solution will have a payback lower than 5 years.

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