Efenco

• Retrofit industries to make them more sustainable: Efenco’s HERC - High Energy Ray Ceramics technology enables high-consumption industries to increase resource-use efficiency and adopt cleaner technologies for their industrial processes. Installing a HERC component was proven to reduce fuel consumption by 18%, reducing drastically the CO2 emissions of industrial processes. At the same time, the implementation of HERC enables a production cost drop of up to 7%. 

The reduction in fuel consumption and decrease in the sector’s emissions are extremely important, since CO2 emissions from energy combustion and industrial process accounted for close to 89% of energy sector greenhouse gas emissions in 2021.

• Promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship for business green transition: The HERC technology patented by Efenco is a product of intensive research and development since 2015, also funded by the European Innovation Counsil (EIC) of the European Union. The product has the potential to upgrade the technological capabilities of high-temperature process heat (HTPH) industrial sectors at large scale – which have a big CO2 footprint. This funding, with the co-funding of the EIC grant will allow Efenco to further develop the HERC efficiency and robustness, carry out industrial pilots, develop HERC mass production technology, reach mass production, and scale up sales.
• Improve efficiency in energy use and reduce energy consumption: the HERC technology developed by Efenco increases the efficiency of combustion processes, which allows to reduce consumption of fuel in intensive-use industries and consequently enables industry decarbonization. The company’s tests have demonstrated a 18% less fuel consumption and between 18% and 20% less CO2 emissions in the industrial processes.

Com sede em Tallinn, Estónia, a missão da Efenco passa por oferecer energia sustentável para as nossas sociedades, enquanto reduz a pegada de CO2 das indústrias de uso intensivo de energia.

O objetivo do promotor é ajudar a remover 77 milhões de toneladas de emissões globais de CO2 até 2033 - equivalente às emissões diárias em todo o mundo. A tecnologia patenteada do promotor aumenta a eficiência de conversão de energia industrial de processos de calor a gás de alta temperatura em pelo menos 18%.

Ao instalar os chips HERC da Efenco (eficientes em termos de custo e com baixa pegada de carbono) em todos os fornos a gás industriais e caldeiras na União Europeia, prevê-se uma redução de mais de 5% no consumo anual de energia e nas emissões de carbono. Esta potencial poupança supera aquela criada pela produção atual combinada de energia solar e eólica, ou, de forma similar, da energia nuclear. 

A Efenco já conseguiu demonstrar poupança de energia de 20% no sistema de aquecimento de uma empresa em Tallinn.

A equipa do promotor conta atualmente com 13 pessoas e tem seis projetos piloto em curso, incluindo projetos em parceria com Adven, Thermory, Endover e Bepco.