Initial situation: Steel recuperators are limited in the application temperature. Ceramic recuperator burners are suitable for 1,200 ° C, but […]
HyBeSt – Hybrid Heating in the steel industry
- Initial situation
- Optimal use of renewable energy in industry poses major challenges to production flexibility
- Synchronizing fluctuating energy supply and continuous production processes and quality requirements requires new approaches
- Flexible use of electrical energy at thermoprocessing plants is increasingly in demand
- Project goals
- Development of a flexible, hybrid (fuel gas/electricity, preferably from renewable sources) heating solution for thermoprocessing plants
- Innovative approaches
- First-time combination of fuel gas heating with electrical resistance heating in a hybrid radiant heating tube
- Flexible use of the above energy sources in a heat treatment furnace in the steel industry
- Use of the existing outer geometry of the radiant heating tube
- Burner technology is simultaneously prepared for future operation with hydrogen or green fuel gas
- Possible benefits for the industry
- energy-flexible heating of the thermoprocessing plant enables the use of different energy sources, depending on the cost situation, availability or grid efficiency
- Marketing of energy flexibility as well as avoidance of CO2 emissions
- Easy replacement of existing technology due to identical dimensions of the new system
Funding source: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (The joint project is a research project within the funded Kopernikus project SynErgie – Synchronized and energy-adaptive production technology for flexible alignment to a fluctuating energy supply)
Duration: 01.11.2019 – 30.06.2023