SPIRE
Brokerage event
October 22nd
2013
SPIRE 6 – 2015
Energy and resource management systems for
improved efficiency in the process industry
Project Idea Presentation
Organizations
THIS PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED BY ESTEP, ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBERS ET AL; LISTED
BELOW;
 ESTEP is the Steel Community's European Steel
Technology Platform
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Project Idea Concept
Practical tools to implement efficient energy and
resources networks management in EU process industry:
• Several assessment methodologies and tools (e.g. KPIs, LCA, etc..)
are being tested and will also be investigated within other SPIRE calls
(e.g. SPIRE 4-2014): they provide metrics and methods to evaluate the different
design solutions.
• Process industry ALSO needs practical tools to IMPLEMENT optimal
and flexible exploitation of energy, water and by-products both inside
their own facilities and through a cross-sectorial approach.
• holistic modeling tools must support a fast formulation of energy and
materials flows whose efficiency needs to be optimized possibly on a
cross-sectorial basis
• Different possibly counteracting factors (also time varying) need to be
taken into account (technical, environmental, economic, ….)  a multiobjective optimization problem must be formulated and then solved
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General objectives
Introducing the concept of „resources network“
• develop a general-purpose approach and tool to model „resource
networks“ (including energy) applicable to different resources within a
single sector and at cross-sectorial level
o tools for single resource (e.g. energy, off-gases, water) exist but often devoted to a
particular industrial sector, thus unsuitable for application outside such sector and to
model cross-sectorial exchanges and interactions
o a single „carrier“ conveys different „resources“ (e.g. water can convey valuable byproducts, water and by-products can have an energetic value)
o the exploitation of process integration concepts need to be straightforward
• provide such tool with the possibility to formalize dynamic optimization
problems accounting multiple different objectives and constraints
• provide (optional) links with monitoring system for real time operations
• select and implement suitable multi-objective optimization technique
• demonstrate the applicability of such tool on real applications (dealing
with one or more resources) including both scenario analyses and
case studies (final implementation of the selected solution can also be
foreseen
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Impact
„Expected outcomes for the SPIRE stakeholders“ for
W2R taken from SPIRE Roadmap page 87f.
Relevance to project idea
Waste streams like BF slag, fly ashes and recycled end-of-life
materials are valorised as secondary raw material.
Addressed.
By 2020 modeling tools and cross-sectorial databases for more
holistic and systematic analysis of the viability of recycling
opportunities developed
Addressed: modelling of resource networks needs to embed
holistic models to allow the evaluation of different solution and
the implementation of optimization strategies
Enlargement of waste heat recovery systems, specifically
designed for different industrial sectors
Indirectly adressed as energy flows optimization is considered
Directly adressed if recovery of waste heat is adressed in one of
the cases study
More efficient water usage in water intensive process industries by
fit-for-purpose and water cascade approaches, thus significantly
improving the economic and environmental performance.
Addressed
New recycling business opportunities. Availability of selected raw
materials improved. Less use of virgin materials,reduced footprints
of production.
Addressed.
Recovery efficiency and process economy improved. Amounts of
residues to landfill reduced.
Indirectly adressed as improvement of by-products reuse is one
of the objectives of the project.
Directly adressed if recovery of landfilled material is one of the
cases study
Improved sustainability scores over the whole value chain due to
more sustainable production
Addressed
Mature framework and methodology to realise cross-sectorial
technology transfer of ideas and practices.
Addressed.
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Project Consortium
A real “consortium” is not yet finalized, but several
expressions of interest on related topics have been
received so far from.
• Steelmaking Companies (AM, Tata Steel, ILVA, Lucchini)
• Plant builders (Tenaris)
• Research centers (BFI, CSM, ISQ, TECNALIA, IVL)
• Universities (SSSA, ULG)
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Looking for partners…
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To support the formalisation of potential cross-sectorial resource
networks..
To provide knowledge for investigation of single and cross-sectorial
resource networks
To provide potential application to case studies (e.g. on water,
energy, by-products, etc.)
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Contact details
Valentina Colla
Scuola Superiore Sant‘Anna - Institute for Communication
Information and Perception Technologies
Email: colla@sssup.it
Deskphone: 0039 050882507
Mobilephone: 0039 3480718937
Address: Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Organization
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) is an
autonomous special-statute university located in Pisa
(Italy). It was established in 1957 and operates in the
field of applied sciences.
SSSA is a college of honours and research
university where students, researchers and
professors form part of a scientific community aimed
at combining a diversity of knowledge and creativity
with advances in scientific discoveries and
technological innovation.
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The work force consists of around 110 professors (incl. assistant) and a research staff of
1300+ people. SSSA is structured in 6 Institutes: dealing with Technologies for
Communication, Information and Perception (TeCIP),
Biorobotics, Life Sciences,
Management, Economics and Law.
TeCIP institute is particularly active in: IT technologies, Optical Communications and
Industrial automation (including Iron and Steel sector).
Research on environmental topics and technologies for better sustainability of industrial
processes. Deep experience in EU research within the past FPs as well as RFCS.
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www.sssup.it
www.tecip.sssup.it