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Revolutionizing Urban Living: Insights from the STARDUST Project
The STARDUST project facilitates the transformation of cities into sustainable, smart urban environments, focusing on integrating intelligent solutions in the energy, mobility, and ICT sectors. It is conducted through lighthouse cities—Pamplona, Tampere, and Trento—that develop, validate, and innovate solutions, with follower cities—Cluj-Napoca, Derry, and Kozani—adapting these solutions. Pamplona reduced CO2 emissions by implementing renewable energy initiatives, Tampere decreased emissions by 29% since 1990 with a focus on carbon neutrality, and Trento strives to reduce CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 while emphasizing sustainable mobility. Challenges encountered included technological integration, regulatory barriers, and fostering public engagement. Replicability and adaptation to local contexts were key in each follower city's approach to maximizing energy efficiency and implementing smart infrastructure. The project established business models and financial schemes, like PPPs and impact investing, to support smart city transitions. Key performance indicators like Payback Periods and ROI were essential for assessing financial viability. The STARDUST project’s lessons and best practices serve as a model for other cities moving towards sustainability.
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Transforming Europe's Energy Grids for a Sustainable Future
The paper discusses Europe's transition to an interconnected, renewable-focused energy grid, emphasizing the need for smart grids, AI, flexibility markets, advanced data exchange, and interoperability. These elements are crucial for balancing supply and demand, enhancing grid efficiency, and achieving sustainability and decarbonization goals, all while facing challenges in technology, investment, and stakeholder collaboration.
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How new technology can allow factories without chimneys
Professor Hussam Jouhara discusses the development of the Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser (HPCE), designed to reduce industrial energy consumption and emissions by recovering waste heat and water. Supported by the EU's Horizon 2020, HPCE overcomes challenges such as exhaust stream variability and corrosive condensates, aiming to enhance efficiency and environmental sustainability in industries, especially in the chemical sector, by promoting energy and material recovery.
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Biomass Gasification: A Key to Decarbonizing Energy-Intensive Industries
The EU project CORALIS explores biomass gasification's techno-economic feasibility for decarbonizing energy-intensive industries, highlighting its potential with syngas and biochar production as fossil fuel alternatives. Larger-scale operations demonstrate better economic returns, with significant positive impacts on industrial decarbonization efforts.
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ORC-systems are helping to create a sustainable energy future
Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology is being used in Sweden to transform waste heat into renewable electricity. The high efficiency and low maintenance way to produce sustainable electricity is being adopted by district heating systems around the world. Read how Ronneby.
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ORC RANK has worked with SWEP to implement a heat recovery solution for electricity power generation. The activation range for the low-temperature equipment starts at just 85 °C. SWEPs heat exchangers are installed as economizers,.
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