Your choices:
1 Fuel: gaseous; 2 Process heat; 3 Biomass (digestible sludge)
What is your resource? | What do you want to deliver? | What is the service the customer wants? |
3 Biomass (digestible sludge) | District cooling | Comfortable indoor climate |
Biomass (fermentable sludge) | District heating | Electricity |
Biomass (solid) | Electricity | Process cooling (< 0 °C) |
Geothermal | 1 Fuel: Gaseous | 2 Process heat/steam (50 - 150 °C) |
Sunshine | Fuel: Liquid | 2 Process heat (150 - 1000 °C) |
Water | Fuel: Solid | 2 Process heat (> 1000 °C) |
Wind | Local cooling (ind. house) | Transport |
Residual oils/fats etc | Local heating (ind. house) |
The only restriction for a major process industry such as a glass work or a steel work not to use biogas for their process heat is the volume of biogas input to the European gas grid.