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We develop the perfect solution for your process requirements to ensure that our blowers and compressor meet your specific needs. To find the ideal match for your process conditions, we will always engage you with full service from engineering over project management to design and manufacturing.
The range of applications for MVR blower and compressor solutions is constantly expanding through implementation of new technology. Presently, PILLER offers the capability to achieve a temperature increase (ΔT) of up to 20 K in a single-stage application.
As a response to the rising energy costs and climate goals, generating or recovering steam using a heat pump is an attractive option.
The basic principle of the industrial heat pump solution made by PILLER is to recover waste heat and provide it at a usable temperature level for the process.
Key advantages: high primary energy savings, CO2 reduction and overall improved economic efficiency of the system.
The waste heat source is a vapor that can be compressed directly and then used for heating. The basic principle corresponds to the classic Mechanical Vapor Compression (MVR) process. In addition to being used for process heating, the compressed vapor can also be used in another process, or for generating steam or hot water.
If the waste heat source is a liquid or a vapor that cannot be compressed, the heat pump cycle with evaporator can be used.
For this, water is used as a working fluid generating steam in the evaporator at a low pressure and temperature.
In energy intensive process industries with high steam demands, the system has proven itself in terms of economy and sustainability. Wherever thermal separation processes take place and there is a waste of heat, it is possible to retrofit – using our system.
The integration of a heat pump solution made by PILLER, and the resulting improved energy efficiency increases the cost-effectiveness of the plant by reducing energy costs with a short payback period.
The blowers and compressors technology can be used from vacuum – at a few millibars – up to a medium pressure level of 20 bar(g). On top of that PILLER stands for ease of maintenance and reliability, proven in decades of vapor (re-)compression on the market.
CO2 emissions are reduced through the substitution of fossil fuels and, in contrast to conventional heat pumps, the heat pump solution made by PILLER does not use refrigerants which may be environmentally harmful, dangerous, or corrosive.
Our solution uses a commonly available fluid – process vapor or water – and thus contributes significantly to climate and resource protection.
The advantages are clear: higher energy efficiency due to the reuse of waste heat, reduced use of fossil fuels, lower CO2 emissions and reduced energy costs – thanks to retrofitting your process.
- Reductions in energy consumption and costs:
- over 75 % savings in energy
- up to 90 % savings in energy costs
- Improved climate protection and resource conservation thanks to reduced use of fossil fuels and more than 60% reduction in CO2 emissions
- Significantly improved energy efficiency through heat recovery
- Short payback period
- Simple integration into existing systems: retrofitting without great effort and easy implementation even in limited space conditions
Nowadays the process industry still releases large amounts of waste heat into the environment.
Our heat pump solution made by PILLER is ideal for those energy-intensive process industries with high steam demand. It can be used wherever thermal separation processes take place, like in manufacturing of products in the petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, basic materials manufacturing, paper and food industries.
Whether distillation columns, desorption plants, concentrators, evaporative crystallizers or chemical reactions – once process steam or vapor is produced, the reengineering with this system is the best solution to achieve high coefficients of performance (COP) and a correspondingly high economic efficiency.
In the power range of several megawatts and for providing steam at a high temperature level, the heat pump solution made by PILLER is the solution for heat recovery in the process industry. COPs or seasonal performance factors (SEER) of 5 to 45 are possible, depending on the temperature rise, and ensure the quick amortization of the investment.