Industry uses heat at every temperature: below 150 °C for food, textiles and pharma; 150–400 °C for chemicals, paper and steam networks; above 400 °C for steel, cement, glass and ceramics.
Storage lets electric boilers, heat pumps or thermal batteries run when power is cheapest, recovers waste heat between batches and buffers steam demand peaks.
Key facts
- Industries
- 16 mapped
- Outputs
- Steam, hot air, hot oil, hot water
- Drivers
- Fuel cost, carbon, power price
- Start
- Heat demand audit
Integration services12
- Industrial heat-demand assessment
- Heat-load profiling
- Temperature and pressure mapping
- Waste-heat assessment
- Heat recovery system design
- Thermal storage integration
- Steam network optimisation
- Process heat electrification
- Heat pump integration
- Fuel displacement assessment
- Energy efficiency studies
- Industrial energy management
Industry opportunity map
| Industry | Heat storage opportunity | Heat level |
|---|---|---|
| Steel and iron | Furnace preheating, process heat | High |
| Cement | Kiln heat integration, waste heat recovery | High |
| Glass | High-temperature process heat | High |
| Aluminium | Melting and thermal process support | High |
| Chemicals | Steam, reaction and process heating | Medium–high |
| Petrochemicals | Process heat and steam | Medium–high |
| Fertilisers | Steam and thermal process integration | Medium–high |
| Ceramics | Kiln and drying heat | High |
| Pulp and paper | Steam and drying processes | Medium |
| Mining | Mineral processing and drying | Medium |
| Textiles | Dyeing, drying and hot-water systems | Low–medium |
| Food processing | Pasteurisation, drying, cooking | Low–medium |
| Pharmaceuticals | Process heating and hot water | Low–medium |
| Automotive | Paint shops, washing and process heat | Low–medium |
| Desalination | Thermal processes and heat integration | Low–medium |
| Data centres | Heat recovery and reuse | Low |
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Related topics
- Waste Heat RecoveryRecover heat from exhausts, flue gases, kilns, compressors and cooling water — and store it for when it is needed.
- Thermal BatteryIntegrated systems that turn electricity — often cheap renewable power — into stored high-temperature heat for steam, hot air or power.
- Heat PumpsIndustrial and large heat pumps upgrade low-grade heat to useful temperatures; storage lets them run at the best hours.
- High-TemperatureSalts, solids, ceramics and PCMs storing heat at 400–1,300 °C for steel, cement, glass, chemicals and power.
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