SPH article in the HPT Magazine

Our article “Large Temperature Lifts: A Major Challenge? The Future of Industrial Process Heat” has been published in the current issue of the Heat Pumping Technologies Magazine. The international online magazine is issued by the Heat Pump Centre under the umbrella of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and covers topics related to heat-pump technologies, markets, and market developments. In the article, our Sales Manager Christoph Rau outlines the key challenges associated with providing industrial process heat and presents viable solutions.

In Germany, more than two-thirds of industrial energy consumption – over 400 terawatt-hours per year – is attributable to process heat. Decarbonizing these applications is essential for achieving climate targets, yet presents significant challenges: high target temperatures and temperature lifts above 80 Kelvin are often difficult to achieve efficiently and economically with conventional heat-pump technologies.

Using two examples from the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, the article illustrates how modular high-temperature heat pumps such as our ThermBooster™ can overcome these limitations. Thanks to the highly efficient SPH piston compressor combined with a two-stage cascade system or mechanical vapor recompression (MVR), the ThermBooster™ enables temperature lifts of more than 100 Kelvin—clearly demonstrating both economic and environmental benefits.

Would you like to learn more about this efficient technology?

Read the article online to discover the key role high-temperature heat pumps play in the climate-neutral generation of process heat—and the opportunities they offer for industrial users.