Monthly Archives: June 2021

Giovanni Manente, from our consortium partner the University of Birmingham, participated to the 15th International Conference on Energy Storage ENERSTOCK 2021, which was organized by the University of Ljubljana – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – and the National Institute of Chemistry in Slovenia on June 9-11. 

On Thursday 10, Giovanni presented during an online session entitled “An algorithm for optimal selection of thermal energy storage options in industrial waste heat recovery applications.” During the talk, Giovanni introduced his work within the framework of the SO WHAT project to develop an algorithm that can be used as an effective tool for choosing among thermal storage options in waste heat recovery applications.

You can see the full abstract at this link.

At the conference, many other distinguished experts presented the latest scientific and technological achievements as well as future trends and prospects related to materials, applications and systems for thermal and electrical energy storage, power-to-gas or heat applications, climate change and other related disciplines. In addition to two plenary and five keynote lectures, participants had the opportunity to present their work in oral presentations and short oral poster presentations.

On 1 June, Francesco Peccianti and Giorgio Bonvicini, from RINA Consulting, the entity coordinating the SO WHAT Project, visited LIPOR’s facilities in the Greater Porto Area in Portugal. There, they discussed with our partners from LIPOR about Waste Heat recovery opportunities and assessed monitoring infrastructures.

LIPOR, the Intermunicipal Waste Management Service of Greater Porto, was founded in 1982 as Municipality Association and it manages, recovers, and treats the municipal waste produced in eight municipalities of the Greater Porto Area: Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo, and Vila do Conde.

LIPOR is participating in the SO WHAT project mainly with respect to its Energy Recovery plant located in Maia, Portugal, treating 380,000 tons of waste per year. The plant is composed by high temperature gases that go through an energy recovery boiler, which uses the heat to produce steam for power production. In this framework, a study was developed in 2017 to assess the technical-economic feasibility of recovery waste heat of LIPOR’s Energy Recovery plant and the implementation of a district heating system connecting LIPOR and the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, in Oporto. Multiple different options were considered, such as additional burning of waste in the boiler, additional drawing of turbine steam in medium pressure extraction, heat recovery of the exhaust gas from the boiler. With its involvement in SO WHAT, LIPOR will go further in waste heat and cold WH/C valorisation investments related to Oporto Airport.