30% industrial heat applications need less than 100 deg C

Industrial heating worldwide consumes massive amounts of energy, and is a significant source of CO2 emissions.

Interestingly, a sizable portion of industrial heating requires temperatures less than 100 degrees C – studies in the EU have shown that about 30% of all the industrial heating applications required temperatures of 100 deg C or less.

Sub 100 deg C temperatures for industrial heating is an important threshold as this temperature can be realized through the use of solar thermal technologies. The ordinary residential solar water heaters can provide temperatures up to 70 degrees C and the ones customised for specific industrial purposes can provide temperatures up to 100 degrees C.

Such solar thermal technologies are low cost, easy to operate systems with fairly attractive payback periods for many industries.

Given all these, it should come as a big surprise that a large percentage of such industrial and commercial heating applications worldwide are not using solar thermal solutions right now!