Contents
• Introduction
• Overview of the program
– Vision and objectives
– Partners and budget
– Research themes
– Goals
– Expected impact
What we expect to see in the future
• The acceptance of energy use will be based on the added value or service it provides -> energy efficiency metrics will move towards functional metrics to emphasise the service function of energy(e.g. kWh/moved liquid volume per distance, kWh/m2 of information area, kWh of person kept warm)
• System thinking will be widely adopted – fewer possibilities for sub-optimisation
• Systems must be more adaptive to widen the optimal operation envelope (move from optimum point to optimal region)
• Energy labelling will be applied to energy-intensive equipment (e.g. pumps) and investment decisions will be based on energy efficiency
• Energy producers are required to assist their customers to increase energy efficiency
• Energy product acceptance will be based on sustainability of the whole product chain
• Analogously to materials, used energy streams will be classified in relation to their re-use and regeneration as well as GHG-reduction potential
• System closure of industrial processes, material reclamation from waste streams and production of biobased products will increase
Aim of the program
• Aim of the program is to build knowledge and competence
to enable future growth in energy efficiency product and
service innovations
• Focus is in system level solutions
– Product and unit level efficiency improvement potential is
diminishing
– IP creation potential is still large in system level solutions,
fullfillment of the potential requires extensive co-operation
Partners and budget
• Industrial partners – ABB
– Andritz
– Fortum
– Gasum
– Helsinki Energy
– Kumera
– Metso
– SKF
• Research partners – Aalto University
– Lappeenranta University of Technology
– Tampere University of Technology
– VTT
– Åbo Akademi
• Funding partner Tekes
• Duration 5 years
• Budget around 12 M€, industry share of costs over 50 %
Program structure
EFEU
WP2
WP3
WP1
WP4
Energy efficiency
metrics and
targets
Energy efficiency
analysis methods
Energy efficiency
optimisation
methods
Future process
sites with
minimized waste
heat
Energy efficient
separation
systems
Energy efficient
fluid handling
systems
Energy efficiency
services and
solutions
Assessment of
changes in
business
environment
Dissemination
Example of research questions - system
energy efficiency analysis and optimisation
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System converting
energy (and materials)
to produce products or
services
Energy input Product or service
Material and energy discharge
Material input
How to measure the service or
product (amount, function,…)?
What is the potential to minimise discharge?
How to estimate and classify recovery and upgrade
potential?
How to estimate the minimum
primary energy input for defined
product or service?
What is the added value of
energy?
How the system boundaries affect results?
How to identify the most promising improvement
alternatives?
How define objective(s) and to formulate
optimization problem to handle industrially
relevant problems?
Expected Impacts
Expected
results
• Finnish energy
efficiency expert
network to help
companies in R&D
• Import of EE
competence to
Finland
• Methods and
ideas to improve
radically EE in
target applications
• New methods and
ideas to measure,
analyze, and
optimize EE
• Ideas for new EE
business concepts
Activities
• System energy
efficiency
analysis and
optimization
research
• Research of
integrated
energy efficient
systems
• Research of
energy efficiency
services and
solutions
• Foresight and
dissemination
Direct
business
impacts
• New high EE
products
• New EE and
service business
concepts and
ideas
• New methods to
improve
competitiveness
of existing
products and
plants by
increasing EE
Indirect
business
impacts
• Availability of
EE focused R&D
network
• Availability of
engineers that
understand EE
• New tools for
Motiva
Company
R&D