CORDIS · CryoHub
Developing Cryogenic Energy Storage at Refrigerated Warehouses as an Interactive Hub to Integrate Renewable Energy in Industrial Food Refrigeration and to Enhance PowerGrid Sustainability
- Code
CryoHub- Programme
- H2020
- Call
LCE-09-2015- Status
- CLOSED
- Period
- 2016-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG | coordinator | UK | 2 364 411 € |
| DOHMEYER CONSTRUCTION SPOLKA Z ORGANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA | participant | PL | 1 760 574 € |
| L AIR LIQUIDE SA | participant | FR | 591 457 € |
| INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT | participant | FR | 521 250 € |
| FUNDACION CENER | participant | ES | 411 625 € |
| Технически университет - София | participant | BG | 380 000 € |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM | participant | UK | 187 389 € |
| CARBON DATA RESOURCES LTD | participant | UK | 157 034 € |
| INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DU FROID | participant | FR | 121 250 € |
| PSUTEC SPRL | participant | BE | 104 337 € |
| INSTITUTE OF REFRIGERATION | participant | UK | 102 394 € |
| CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY | participant | UK | 100 864 € |
| EUREC EESV | participant | BE | 95 375 € |
| FRIGOLOGIX | participant | BE | 72 280 € |
| TPG DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | participant | UK | 67 494 € |
| NV MAYEKAWA EUROPE SA | participant | BE | 7 860 € |
| DOHMEYER UK LTD | third party | UK | 0 € |
| DOHMEYER SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION NV | third party | BE | 0 € |
| ITP NV | participant | BE | 0 € |
Description
The CryoHub innovation project will investigate and extend the potential of large-scale Cryogenic Energy Storage (CES) and will apply the stored energy for both cooling and energy generation. By employing Renewable Energy Sources (RES) to liquefy and store cryogens, CryoHub will balance the power grid, while meeting the cooling demand of a refrigerated food warehouse and recovering the waste heat from its equipment and components.The intermittent supply is a major obstacle to the RES power market. In reality, RES are fickle forces, prone to over-producing when demand is low and failing to meet requirements when demand peaks. Europe is about to generate 20% of its required energy from RES by 2020, so that the proper RES integration poses continent-wide challenges.The Cryogenic Energy Storage (CES), and particularly the Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES), is a promising technology enabling on-site storage of RES energy during periods of high generation and its use at peak grid demand. Thus, CES acts as Grid Energy Storage (GES), where cryogen is boiled to drive a turbine and to restore electricity to the grid. To date, CES applications have been rather limited by the poor round trip efficiency (ratio between energies spent for and retrieved from energy storage) due to unrecovered energy losses.The CryoHub project is therefore designed to maximise the CES efficiency by recovering energy from cooling and heating in a perfect RES-driven cycle of cryogen liquefaction, storage, distribution and efficient use. Refrigerated warehouses for chilled and frozen food commodities are large electricity consumers, possess powerful installed capacities for cooling and heating and waste substantial amounts of heat. Such facilities provide the ideal industrial environment to advance and demonstrate the LAES benefits.CryoHub will thus resolve most of the above-mentioned problems at one go, thereby paving the way for broader market prospects for CES-based technologies across Europe.
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