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Opportunities for Demonstrating Industrial Heat Pumps in the United States: Prototype Examples in the Food and Beverage Sectors

Opportunities for Demonstrating Industrial Heat Pumps in the United States: Prototype Examples in the Food and Beverage Sectors

Full Title: Opportunities for Demonstrating Industrial Heat Pumps in the United States: Prototype Examples in the Food and Beverage Sectors
Author(s): EPRI
Publisher(s): EPRI
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
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Description (excerpt):

Manufacturing companies are under tremendous global pressure to remain competitive. Supply chains are constantly changing due to economic, political, and resource supply issues. Climate change has emerged as a critical risk to industry. Accordingly, proactive companies are incorporating Climate Change impacts such as weather, energy prices, drought, etc. into their strategic planning processes. Energy intensive industries, such as petroleum refining, chemicals, paper, cement, primary metals, and food and beverage manufacturing are especially concerned about the impact of climate change on their businesses and markets. Likewise, individual manufacturing facilities are receiving corporate carbon reduction goals and mandates from corporate leadership teams and are therefore looking for practical solutions to meet their respective goals.

U.S. manufacturing accounts for 33% of total United States (U.S.) energy consumption (USDOE, EIA, 2023) as well as 23% (USEPA, 2023) of the carbon emissions. Process heating is the dominant energy use in manufacturing, accounting for 51% (Rightor, 2022) of total onsite energy use, especially in the food and beverage manufacturing (F&B) sector. This report focuses on the opportunities of energy efficiency, electrification, and decarbonization of process heating requirements for the F&B sector. Specifically, how industrial heat pump (IHP) technology can often serve as the best life cycle cost solution to decarbonize F&B process heat.

Five prototypical F&B processes are analyzed for IHP opportunities. Energy savings in these processes are projected, as well as the estimated economics and carbon emission reductions in the respective 6-digit NAICS sectors across the entire U.S. and in California.

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