Cemex to install supercritical CO2 waste heat recovery plant at Prachovice cement plant in the Czech Republic Written by Global Cement staff
09 June 2021
2 (sCO
2) at its Prachovice cement plant. The unit is intended to provide up to 8% of the plant’s electricity requirements.
The producer is part of a consortium studying new sCO
2 WHR systems. The EU Horizon 2020 Industrial Heat to Power fund awarded Euro14m in financial backing to the consortium. The project is intended to demonstrate a cheaper and more flexible method of waste heat valorisation compared to the steam or organic rankine cycle approaches conventionally used in WHR.