The IOB at the 6th CDI Innovation Meeting

On Novem­ber 14, our col­le­ague Katha­ri­na Roth­höft tra­ve­led to Lud­wigs­ha­fen to take part in the 6th CDI Inno­va­ti­on Mee­ting. The event was orga­ni­zed by the Clus­ter Decar­bo­niza­ti­on of Indus­try (CDI) and took place at the pre­mi­ses of MVV Ena­mic Lud­wigs­ha­fen GmbH. As part of the EE4InG2 pro­ject, Katha­ri­na took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to exch­an­ge ide­as, net­work and dis­cuss cur­rent rese­arch trends.

The CDI orga­ni­zes mee­tings of its inno­va­ti­on groups twice a year. The aim is to pro­mo­te exch­an­ge, deve­lop new pro­ject ide­as and pro­mo­te net­wor­king bet­ween experts. Katha­ri­na is part of the “Pro­cess Heat” group, which deals with key issues rela­ting to the decar­bo­niza­ti­on of indus­tri­al processes.

The event began at 17:00 with a series of lec­tures. The first lec­tu­re was dedi­ca­ted to the use of heat pumps in indus­tri­al parks and their role in decar­bo­niza­ti­on. Ano­ther pre­sen­ta­ti­on was dedi­ca­ted to the use of was­te heat and the appli­ca­ti­on and hea­ting of ther­mal sto­rage sys­tems. IREES GmbH also pre­sen­ted a con­cept based on many years of expe­ri­ence with work­shops.  The aim of this con­cept is to deve­lop mea­su­res to increase ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy in companies.

Fol­lo­wing the pre­sen­ta­ti­ons, the par­ti­ci­pan­ts had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take part in a gui­ded tour of MVV Ena­mic Lud­wigs­ha­fen GmbH’s Lud­wigs­ha­fen Indus­tri­al Park. During the tour, the steam gene­ra­ti­on plants and the ener­gy plants for elec­tri­ci­ty pro­duc­tion were visi­ted. After the tour, inter­ac­ti­ve work­shops were held in smal­ler groups. The fol­lo­wing topics were dis­cus­sed: “Fle­xi­bi­liza­ti­on and hybri­diza­ti­on of pro­cess heat”, “Ther­mal sto­rage” and “Infor­ma­ti­on trans­fer”. Katha­ri­na took part in the “Fle­xi­bi­liza­ti­on and hybri­diza­ti­on of pro­cess heat” working group. The group deve­lo­ped the idea of crea­ting an infor­ma­ti­on event or bro­chu­re that shows how pro­cess heat can be made fle­xi­ble. The event was con­cluded with a get-together.

We would like to thank the CDI and Kers­tin Drechs­ler for orga­ni­zing and run­ning this suc­cessful event. We look for­ward to incor­po­ra­ting the know­ledge gai­ned into the EE4InG2 project.