Novel Efficient Energy

Saving Technologies

Jiri Klemeš, Tanapong Phuengphaeng, Igor Bulatov – UoM, UK

Peter Jansen, Jaap Koppejan - TNO-MEP, the Netherlands

Jens Hetland - SINTEF, Norway

Ana Pipio - IST, Portugal

Fossil fuels still account for over 85% supply of the world energy needs.

Being abundant they are expected to remain the major

source of energy in the foreseeable future

International Energy Outlook 2003, www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/pdf/highlights.pdf, accessed July 30, 2004

The World Energy Demand is

Growing Dramatically

Oil

32%

Natural Gas

21%

Nuclear

6%

Large Hydro

6%

Traditional

Biomass

11%

Other

Renewables

2%

Coal

22%

Sources: BP, BP Statistical Review of World Energy, www. bp.com/centres/energy2002/index.asp accessed 27/08/2003

Percentage contributions of various energy sources to world primary

energy consumption in the year 2002

The World Energy Demand is

Growing Dramatically

This means combustion of increasing amounts

of fossil fuels and release of considerable amounts of CO2

International Energy Outlook 2003, www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/pdf/highlights.pdf, accessed July 30, 2004

Emissions from Fossil Fuels

Global Warming and Influence of

Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/climate.html

Global Warming and Influence of

Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions

Sabine, C.L., et al, 2004. The Oceanic Sink for anthropogenic CO2. Science, 305, 367-371

It is estimated that ~50% of anthropogenic CO2 has entered the ocean where is

it beginning to threat the viability of the many species that have carbonate

skeletons and play a major role in the oceanic carbon cycle

On the other hand...

Many novel and exciting concepts are formulated and

developed in leading research centres, institutions and

laboratories throughout the industrial world

IF and WHEN implemented, some of these could

lead to significant economic and social benefits on a global

scale

The problem is:

• To identify novel concepts

• To evaluate their practicality

• To speed up the time scale of getting them into the

market place for end user implementation as swiftly

as possible

Established by DG TREN in 2003 to accelerate implementation

of promising Early Stage Technologies (ESTs) for energy

conversion, storage and transportation

EMINENT - Early Market Introduction of New

ENergy Technologies by the OPET network in

liaison with science and industry - NNE5-2002-00075

Eminent Partners:• TNO, the Netherlands

• SINTEF Energiforskning AS, Norway

• University of Manchester (upto 30 Sept 2004 UMIST)

• Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

• PTJ Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany

• VTT Processes, Finland

• Riga Technical University, Latvia

• UPEI VUT Brno, the Czech Republic

• Risoe National Laboratory, Danemark

• Moscow State University, Russian Federation

EMINENT Project

EMINENT

European Commission

DG Research

R & D 1

R & D 2

R & D 3

R & D i

OPET 1

OPET 2

OPET 3

OPET i

The link between EMINENT, R&D projects, OPETs,

DG Research and European Commission

Source: Energy Project NNE5-2002-00075 “EMINENT”. 2004

EMINENT Assessment Tool

Web based, a potential user has to be provided with the user name and

password to log in the software, www.eminentproject.com

Example: EMINENT geothermal resource screen

EMINENT Assessment Tool

• EST Manager

• Resources Manager

• Demands Manager

• Analysis tool

Four Main Functions in EMINENT Assessment Tool

Early Stage Technologies ManagerContains information about relevant technologies, which are

commercially available on the market or during the development

Ambient

heat

Biomass

Windpower

Hydropower

Waste

Gas / Oil

Hydrogen

Solar

Ambient

heat

Ambient

heat

BiomassBiomass

WindpowerWindpower

HydropowerHydropower

WasteWaste

Gas / OilGas / Oil

HydrogenHydrogen

SolarSolar

Early Stage Technologies

(examples)

1. Biomass

• Biomass Gasification Methanol Synthesis System

from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

• Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis from Arkenol, Inc.

Early Stage Technologies

2. Heat Exchangers

• Plate Fin Heat Exchangers from Chart Heat Exchangers

• Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers from Heatric Ltd.

• Corrugated Tube Heat Exchangers from HRS Heat

Exchanger Ltd

Early Stage Technologies

3. Solar Photovoltaic Cells

• Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells from BP Solar, Inc.

• Thin Film Solar Cells from United Solar Ovonic LLC

• Third Generation Solar Cells from Konarka

Technologies, Inc.

• Biological-Based Solar Cells from MIT and UTK

Early Stage Technologies

4. Oil Refining

• Power Recovery Unit in Fluid Catalytic Cracking

Unit from UOP LLC

Resource Manager

In Resource Manager seven energy resources are available :

• Electricity

• Fuels

• Geothermal

• Hydro energy

• Ocean tidal energy

• Wave energy

• Wind energy

The user can search for the energy

resource by selecting the continent,

country, resource type, source, and

editor name

Demand ManagerSimilar to the resource manager, there are five demand types:

• Electricity

• Fuels

• Heating

• Mechanical work

• Transportation

The user can search for the energy

demand by selecting the continent,

country, main sector, sector, sub

sector, demand type, source, or

editor name

Analysis ToolIn analysis tool, all data are combined together to evaluate the

economic possibility and amount of CO2 emission. EST, resources and

demands data are selected from the database to compare the

performances of each technology.

Recent Public Awareness Activities

WEB SITE: WWW.EMINENTPROJECT.COM

Workshop on

ASSESSMENT OF EARLY STAGE TECHNOLOGIES

8 March 2004 Riga, Latvia

• Assessing Early Stage Technologies: gaining access to knowledge

and assessment tools

• Evaluation of EST’s developed in FP5 projects

• Methodology and initial results of Eurendel. Dephi study on Europe's

energy future (Eurendel)

• Emerging decarbonised energy carriers by conversion of natural gas

• Assessment of particular EST’s in practice - Bio-ethanol - CO2 -

capture - Process Integration - Biomass Fuel Cells - Wind - Fuel cells

- New bioenergy schemes - Waste to Energy

• European policies for surmounting barriers to accelerated

introduction of EST’s

• Relevance of new technologies in the OPET network

Recent Public Awareness Activities

Workshop on

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE DEVELOPED

TOOL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT

OF ESTs AND DISCUSSION

ON POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

31 March - 1 April 2005, Brno, Czech Republic

www.eminetproject.com/2005

• Presentation of the latest version of EST Assessment software

tool to existing and potential end users

• Training the end users

• Discussion on policy recommendations which are being

developed by the participants of the project

Recent Public Awareness Activities

EMINENT is looking for

world-wide collaboration

• You are welcome to use and evaluate the SW tool

• You are welcome to contribute to the data base of the EST

• For more details and information visit

www.eminentproject.com