Developing and demonstrating innovative solutions for renewable and waste heat-driven cooling technologies in industries: the RE-WITCH project

The present work introduces a research project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program, focusing on the development and demonstration of innovative cooling technologies for industrial applications, which can be driven by low-grade waste heat and solar thermal collectors. Aiming at increased compactness and reduced cost, an adsorption chiller based on a novel internal cycle configuration will be developed. For simultaneous heating and cooling with increased temperature lift and for supply of cooling at two separate temperature levels, advanced absorption chiller concepts will be applied, based on a hybrid absorption/compression cycle and a twin evaporator/absorber configuration, respectively.