5.10 Ecop and EIT InnoEnergy partner to launch novel industrial heat pump

Austrian company, Ecop Technologies, with support and funding of €3.9 million from EIT InnoEnergy, announced in June 2022 the launch of its rotary heat pump, which can provide regenerative heat with a temperature of up to 150 degrees Celsius.

Process heat has a significant cost due to legislation and high gas prices. Few sustainable solutions are available in the 100-200°C range. There is an urgent need from industry for heat pumps that remain efficient up to150°C, are costeffective, reliable and do not use fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases).

But Ecop has met this challenge with the development of its new heat pump that is both extremely cost-effective and energy efficient. It has a broad area of application, from -20 °C to 150 °C, requires no lubrication and all parts are low maintenance, as they are rotating, standard and industrial. The Ecop rotation heat pump can be used simultaneously in one machine to generate heat and cold, and also serves as a flywheel accumulator. No F-gases or flammable refrigerants are used.

With its innovation, Ecop will be able to advance into areas that were previously unattainable for heat pumps in industrial use. This makes the rotary heat pump the ideal solution for a whole range of the most demanding, CO2-intensive and expensive manufacturing processes. This results in huge market potential for Ecop in Europe and beyond.

B ER n HARD A D l ER CEO of ecop Technologies

We are all pleased to have won one of the world’s leading cleantech investors, EIT InnoEnergy, to support us in our broad-based market entry.

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