Contents

• Introduction

• Overview of the program

– Vision and objectives

– Partners and budget

– Research themes

– Goals

– Expected impact

What we expect to see in the future

• The acceptance of energy use will be based on the added value or service it provides -> energy efficiency metrics will move towards functional metrics to emphasise the service function of energy(e.g. kWh/moved liquid volume per distance, kWh/m2 of information area, kWh of person kept warm)

• System thinking will be widely adopted – fewer possibilities for sub-optimisation

• Systems must be more adaptive to widen the optimal operation envelope (move from optimum point to optimal region)

• Energy labelling will be applied to energy-intensive equipment (e.g. pumps) and investment decisions will be based on energy efficiency

• Energy producers are required to assist their customers to increase energy efficiency

• Energy product acceptance will be based on sustainability of the whole product chain

• Analogously to materials, used energy streams will be classified in relation to their re-use and regeneration as well as GHG-reduction potential

• System closure of industrial processes, material reclamation from waste streams and production of biobased products will increase

Vision of EFEU

Aim of the program

• Aim of the program is to build knowledge and competence

to enable future growth in energy efficiency product and

service innovations

• Focus is in system level solutions

– Product and unit level efficiency improvement potential is

diminishing

– IP creation potential is still large in system level solutions,

fullfillment of the potential requires extensive co-operation

Partners and budget

• Industrial partners – ABB

– Andritz

– Fortum

– Gasum

– Helsinki Energy

– Kumera

– Metso

– SKF

• Research partners – Aalto University

– Lappeenranta University of Technology

– Tampere University of Technology

– VTT

– Åbo Akademi

• Funding partner Tekes

• Duration 5 years

• Budget around 12 M€, industry share of costs over 50 %

Research themes

Work packages

Program structure

EFEU

WP2

WP3

WP1

WP4

Energy efficiency

metrics and

targets

Energy efficiency

analysis methods

Energy efficiency

optimisation

methods

Future process

sites with

minimized waste

heat

Energy efficient

separation

systems

Energy efficient

fluid handling

systems

Energy efficiency

services and

solutions

Assessment of

changes in

business

environment

Dissemination

Example of research questions - system

energy efficiency analysis and optimisation

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System converting

energy (and materials)

to produce products or

services

Energy input Product or service

Material and energy discharge

Material input

How to measure the service or

product (amount, function,…)?

What is the potential to minimise discharge?

How to estimate and classify recovery and upgrade

potential?

How to estimate the minimum

primary energy input for defined

product or service?

What is the added value of

energy?

How the system boundaries affect results?

How to identify the most promising improvement

alternatives?

How define objective(s) and to formulate

optimization problem to handle industrially

relevant problems?

Expected Impacts

Expected

results

• Finnish energy

efficiency expert

network to help

companies in R&D

• Import of EE

competence to

Finland

• Methods and

ideas to improve

radically EE in

target applications

• New methods and

ideas to measure,

analyze, and

optimize EE

• Ideas for new EE

business concepts

Activities

• System energy

efficiency

analysis and

optimization

research

• Research of

integrated

energy efficient

systems

• Research of

energy efficiency

services and

solutions

• Foresight and

dissemination

Direct

business

impacts

• New high EE

products

• New EE and

service business

concepts and

ideas

• New methods to

improve

competitiveness

of existing

products and

plants by

increasing EE

Indirect

business

impacts

• Availability of

EE focused R&D

network

• Availability of

engineers that

understand EE

• New tools for

Motiva

Company

R&D