INDUS3ES - Demonstration of innovative integrated biomass logistics centres for the Agro-industry sector in Europe

DESCRIPTION
Indus3Es System will be defined and optimized for different specificities in different sectors and industrial processes, for which up-scaling of the demonstrated technology and replication studies will be performed. Market potential evaluation and business analysis will be performed by industrial partners in order to guarantee a successful exploitation of the system in a short future.
OBJECTIVES
The developed system will be easily adapted into various industrial process and sources of both, new and existing industries. It will be demonstrated in a real scenario, enabling to analyse besides integration aspects, operational and business issues.
The new system will be based on absorption heat transformer (AHT) technology, and will allow a 20% reduction of the process heat demand. Besides the embodied energy, the environmental footprint of the products and the manufacturing costs will be reduced too, increasing the competitiveness of European products.
CIRCE'S ROLE
Regarding the technical issues, CIRCE will lead the development of the INDUCE methodology, which will enable the creation the training programs. Following, CIRCE will take part in the implementation and monitoring of the training programs in the pilot companies, as well as in the training of the coaches in the mentioned methodology.
Finally, CIRCE will also contribute to the validation of the INDUCE Methodology, and in the evaluation of its impact, in order to proceed with its improvement and update, with special focus on the national and European regulatory issues.