# Energy-intensive industry and Recuperators and regenerators

Energy flows from energy-intensive industry to recuperators and regenerators; energy flows from recuperators and regenerators to energy-intensive industry; their prices have moved together.

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[Energy-intensive industry](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_heavy_industry/) (energy) and [Recuperators and regenerators](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_recuperators/) (energy): 3 relationships.

## How they are linked

### 1. Energy flow

*Physical flow · Direct · Energy-intensive industry → Recuperators and regenerators*

Regenerative burners reuse furnace exhaust heat.

### 2. Energy flow

*Physical flow · Direct · Recuperators and regenerators → Energy-intensive industry*

Preheated air cuts fuel use in furnaces and kilns.

### 3. Price link: main users

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Steel, glass, cement and metal heat-treatment plants are the main buyers, and higher energy tariffs raise the value of heat recovery. Yearly moves correlate at 0.37 with the industrial power proxy, a weak link.

- **0.04** monthly change correlation
- **0.37** 12-month change correlation
- **1.13** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.