Dear reader,

The past months have been difficult and challenging and I hope that you and your beloved ones stay healthy! Despite the difficulties experienced, we didn’t stay idle, of course!
The last time we updated, the demo-sites were about to be implemented and the virtual modelling to feed decision support system tool for flexibility management was starting.

Our last months were mostly focused on developing the last steps to manufacture the prototypes to be commissioned in the demosites, including activities such as the concretion of final designs, components purchasing and detailed engineering for their integration in the plants.

The engineering activities for the Organic Rankine Cycle to be demonstrated in TÜPRAS Izmit refinery (Turkey) have continued and are expected to be finalised in the following months; and the components for the high-temperature heat pump planned to be installed in ArcelorMittal plant in Avilés (Spain) have been purchased and are ready for the manufacturing of the prototype.
 
Regarding the developments related to combustion and alternative fuels, the engineering of the combustion monitoring system, to be installed at Arcelor Mittal facilities, was finalized and camera installation has started. Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations have led to the final design of a Low NOx burner for an existing kiln in the partner Grecian Magnesite in Yerakini (Greece) and the commission of the burner is being developed. Also, a wide simulation campaign has been carried out to characterize the fuel flexibility potential in the operation of ArcelorMittal furnace, Grecian Magnesite rotatory kiln and UPM’s Plattling (Germany) fluidized bed when introducing, respectively, process gas, biomass and sludge as alternative fuels.

In the last months, partners have also been working in the development of different tools to analyse the flexibility potentials related to heat recovery, electricity flexibility and by-product valorisation and to be used as decision-making instruments.

Finally, the potential needs of the different demo sites for developing forecasting models related to prices of energy have been investigated too. Let me thank you once again for your interest in our project and invite you to follow our social networks and to take a closer look at the latest news from the world of BAMBOO. 

Cristina Gonzalo Tirado
BAMBOO Coordinator - Fundaciòn CIRCE
BAMBOO VIDEO
Heavy industry is changing, for the better.
Are you ready for this flexible industry revolution?
ENERGY FLEXIBILITY IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES: A COMPANIES’ MUST-HAVE FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Scientific paper to investigate mapping flexibility strategies and their requirements in the process industry environment.
INTERVIEWS
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES: THE ORC SYSTEM IN BAMBOO
How can waste heat recovery Organic Ranking Cycle support a sustainable energy conversion of power plants? Is the technology mature, and how is it declined and tested by BAMBOO project? Interview with the Turkish oil company TUPRAS.
The capacity of Mineral Raw Materials is a requirement for the sustainable function, prosperity and progress of modern societies. Interview with Grecian Magnesite.
 
BROCHURE
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Innovative technologies to increase industrial competitiveness through the flexibility of processes. How will BAMBOO contribute to improving industrial flexibility?
BAMBOO is expected to demonstrate energy and materials demand management concepts in highly intensive industries relying on the valorisation and reuse of waste streams. BAMBOO solutions will make REII more sustainable as they will improve the energy efficiency of the processes while enabling a better management of the energy sources.
INNOVATION PILLARS
Innovation Pillar #1: ELECTRICAL FLEXIBILITY
 
Flexibility in electricity consumption offers industries the possibility to benefit from lower electricity prices and potentially provide grid services, as well as enabling the potential integration of renewable energies. BAMBOO will develop an innovative hybrid process for sludge drying to allow the plant to consume electricity according to the grid conditions, provide grid services and facilitate the integration of renewable energy.
Innovation Pillar #2: WASTE STREAM VALORISATION
 
Many waste streams have valuable calorific content and can be valorised as fuels for other processes, thus being a potential revenue stream for the industries. Therefore, BAMBOO will deploy technologies and processes that allow the upgrading of these streams and their valorisation (through improved combustion monitoring systems that enable the replacement of fossil fuels by off-gases).
Innovation Pillar #3: WASTE HEAT RECOVERY

Waste streams usually have a valuable energy content associated to its exhaust temperature that is wasted in most cases. Hence the goal is to develop technologies to valorise this energy content and use it where it is required within the process. BAMBOO will study relevant streams in terms of waste heat recovery potential and its different uses, thus contributing to increase the flexibility options of the plant.
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