About the project
COMHPTES aims to develop innovative, cost-effective, and compact heat pump (HP) and thermal energy storage (TES) technologies, and to demonstrate them up to TRL 5 in a fully integrated flexible and modular system able to supply heating and cooling on demand for industrial applications. Also included in this study are the interfaces with affordable renewable energy systems, waste heat recovery, and district networks. The COMHPTES system will address industrial end-users with flexible heat loads and temperature requirements in the ranges from 0.5 to 10 MW-t and 5 to 225°C, respectively, which represent approximately half of the total industrial installations and a quarter of the total process heat consumption in the EU. The COMHPTES system will build upon the compactness and modularity of its technologies to best comply with space constraints in industry, and to enable gradual technology adoption, thereby reducing large upfront investments and operational risks.
