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Sign upExploiting waste heat in industrial processes and power generation systems
Efficiency PACK by Orcan Energy AG implemented by Portlandzementwerk Wittekind Hugo Miebach Söhne KG in Erwitte (Germany) in 2021
The eP 150.200 efficiency Packs lead to savings on the existing cooler and convert the waste heat generated during energy-intensive cement production on site into a total of up to 8,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year.
Orcan Energy AG
Orcan Energy AG is a leading European CleanTech company offering efficient energy solutions based on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology for the conversion of waste heat into electricity. Orcan Energy AG was founded in 2008 by physicists Dr. Andreas Sichert, Dr. Andreas Schuster and Richard Aumann, with the aim of providing companies from a variety of industry sectors a simple, cost-saving and efficient energy solutions that unlocks the enormous energy potential of unused industrial waste heat sources. Orcan Energy AG currently operates 70 plants in Europe, making it the most widely used provider in the low-temperature sector in Germany. Orcan Energy AG employs 60 people and is headquartered in Munich.
Exploiting waste heat in industrial processes and power generation systems
The complexity in designing ORC plants meant only niche applications with large uniform heat sources, e.g. geothermal, could be exploited commercially. Orcan developed a new generation of ORC products based on a modular design. These ORC units are much more versatile and feature significantly lower LCOEs, even reaching the level of baseload electricity driven by fossil fuels. Orcan is the leading supplier of such modular and compact ORC products, both in terms of the number of ORC units installed as well as cost-effectiveness. By converting a complex thermodynamic system into a plug & play product, the technology has been made available for mass application. The Efficiency Packs are designed in a way to reduce project-specific engineering effort. The final ORC unit was designed with manufacturability in mind. Cost positions previously only available in large-scale ORC plants, can now also be achieved in the small- to mid-scale waste heat market.
Orcan Energy AG
Orcan Energy AG is a leading European CleanTech company offering efficient energy solutions based on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology for the conversion of waste heat into electricity. Orcan Energy AG was founded in 2008 by physicists Dr. Andreas Sichert, Dr. Andreas Schuster and Richard Aumann, with the aim of providing companies from a variety of industry sectors a simple, cost-saving and efficient energy solutions that unlocks the enormous energy potential of unused industrial waste heat sources. Orcan Energy AG currently operates 70 plants in Europe, making it the most widely used provider in the low-temperature sector in Germany. Orcan Energy AG employs 60 people and is headquartered in Munich.
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