Heat pump systems
Make the most of the unlimited environmental energy available to meet your heating needs. We will work with you to develop and evaluate heat pump solutions.
Get in touch with DMT
Make the most of the unlimited environmental energy available to meet your heating needs. We will work with you to develop and evaluate heat pump solutions.
Get in touch with DMTThe decarbonisation of heat supply is one of the key challenges facing industry, the commercial sector and local authorities. Whilst renewable electricity generation is becoming increasingly available, a significant proportion of heat supply continues to rely on fossil fuels. Heat pumps make it possible to utilise existing environmental and waste heat sources efficiently and to drive forward the electrification of heat supply in a targeted manner.
For many companies, there is untapped potential right on their own premises. Production processes, cooling systems, data centres, wastewater streams and industrial exhaust air continuously release heat into the environment. Modern heat pump systems can raise this energy to a higher temperature level and make it available for building heating, hot water or industrial applications.
Industry, towns, local authorities and infrastructure operators are increasingly turning to large-scale heat pumps. These can integrate environmental heat or waste heat into local and district heating networks, thereby increasing the proportion of renewable energy in the heat supply.
We work with you to develop and evaluate heat pump concepts. This process begins with a potential analysis and an assessment of technical and economic feasibility, and continues through to implementation, as well as providing advice and assisting with applications for funding.
An overview of our services:
Dr Stefan Rabe
, Managing Consultant
DMT ENERGY ENGINEERS
M +49 171 7707706
In future, heat pumps will no longer be viewed in isolation. They are evolving into an integral part of interconnected energy systems that combine renewable energy, energy storage, hydrogen, smart grids and digital control technologies.
This gives rise to flexible supply concepts that use energy efficiently, reduce CO₂ emissions and support long-term investment security. Heat pumps can make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of industrial heat supply, particularly in processes involving temperatures between 100 °C and 200 °C. This opens up new opportunities for sectors such as the chemical, food, paper and raw materials industries.
As an independent partner for engineering services and consultancy, with more than 280 years’ experience and interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of energy, infrastructure, digitalisation and process engineering, DMT supports companies, energy suppliers and local authorities in developing well-founded heat pump concepts.
Heat pumps are particularly well suited to applications where continuous heat or waste heat flows at suitable temperature levels are available. Typical areas of application include the chemical industry, food production, the paper industry, metal processing, raw material processing, as well as data centres and municipal infrastructure.
In addition to supplying buildings, heat pumps can provide process heat, support production processes or reintegrate waste heat from existing plants back into the value chain. The decisive factors here are the available heat sources, the required flow temperatures and the system’s operating profiles. Depending on the technology, refrigerant and process design, temperatures ranging from over 100 °C up to around 200 °C can now be achieved. This opens up potential applications for, for example:
Detailed analyses of the process requirements and temperature profiles are required for the technical assessment.
Successful integration requires consideration of the system as a whole. In addition to the heat pump itself, the following must also be taken into account:
DMT assesses these interrelationships holistically and develops concepts that combine technical performance, operational safety and long-term cost-effectiveness.
Many commercial and industrial sites require both heating and cooling at the same time. Examples include the food industry, logistics centres and production processes. Heat pumps can link these energy flows together. The waste heat generated during cooling processes is not simply released into the environment, but is instead used for heating, hot water or process heat.
This increases the overall efficiency of the energy system and allows existing energy to be reused multiple times.