TRINEFLEX

PROJECTS
Sep 9, 2022
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Transformation of energy intensive process industries through integration of energy, process, and feedstock flexibility

Duration: 1 September 2022 - 31 August 2026

Funding programme: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01

Project budget: € 16,308,948.50

SEL NTUA budget: € 395,000.00

Coordinator: AIMEN

SEL NTUA role: Participation in WP4, WP5, WP6

Project website: trineflex.eu

Project summary and objectives

TRINEFLEX is an integrated EII-transformation toolkit following the `X as a service model´. For the end-users (EIIs), TRINEFLEX will function as an end-to-end service managing the plant’s digital lifecycle and the process of transition to flexible and sustainable operation. This process will be enabled by advanced and green data acquisition, Big Data Infrastructures, process analysis, model development and finally Digital Twins with integrated multi-agent decision support systems. TRINEFLEX will be implemented at each of five demonstration sites with unique challenges, from 4 sectors: glass, copper, aluminium and water industries. The implementation will be supported through the integration of transformative technologies (from the energy efficiency, clean energy, sustainable fuels and feedstocks and CCUS sectors), that synergise with the powerful digital solutions to demonstrate flexibility measures towards energy neutrality. Additionally, TRINEFLEX is designed for rapid replicability in these sectors and high transferability in other P4Planet sectors centred on energy flexibility on the short term and industrial symbiosis on the long term.

Project demonstration sites

DEMO 1 VERAL – Glass sector (Veneto/Italy)
DEMO 2 REFIAL – Aluminium sector (Basque Country/Spain)
DEMO 3 ESAMUR – Water Treatment (Water/energy nexus) (Murcia/Spain)
DEMO 4 HALCOR – Copper sector (Central Greece)
DEMO 5 EYDAP – Water treatment co-flexibility (Water/energy nexus) (Attiki/Greece)

Our role in the project

With its participation in WP5, SEL NTUA is supporting the digital twin of the ESAMUR demo site by implementing the C-FOOT-CTRL tool, which is a dynamic model specialised in predicting the CO2 footprint of wastewater treatment processes. Under WP4, SEL NTUA operates a pilot pyrogasification chamber within the EYDAP premises that utilizes pyrolysis bioproducts like biochar as catalytic material that promote the circularity of the process and minimizes residues. Additionally, within WP6, SEL NTUA accesses the availability of local, low-cost solid biomass resources for the project’s DEMO sites.

Research team

Simos Malamis, Danos Mamais, Constantinos Noutsopoulos, Dimitris Andreadakis, Argyro Plevri, Christos Ioannides