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Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression: Overview

Pumping waste heat uphill to where a factory can use it

What this tile covers Raising low-grade waste heat to a useful temperature.

Key facts

Heat gradeLow (below 230 C)

Included from the reference tables

  • Industrial heat pumps
  • Mechanical vapour recompression
  • Thermal vapour recompression
  • Multi-effect evaporation

Also in Shared heat and everyday recovery

Shr Shared and district heat reuseHRV Building heat recoveryPF Electrical loss reduction

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