Partners
The HURRICANE project is driven by a consortium of diverse and expert partners, each contributing unique skills and knowledge to advance our shared goals. Below are the dedicated pages for each partner, detailing their roles, expertise, and contributions to the project:
ArcelorMittal Belgium (AMB)
As a global leader in steel manufacturing, ArcelorMittal brings extensive experience in full-scale demonstrations and expertise in optimizing industrial processes. Within HURRICANE, AMB focuses on developing a new heat grid to enhance circularity and sustainable practices at the Ghent site.
Centre de recherches metallurgiques ASBL (CRM)
CRM Group specializes in research and development for metallic materials, offering innovative solutions to enhance industrial processes. In HURRICANE, CRM leads the development and testing of heat exchanger concepts to harness waste heat in steel processes.
VITO
With expertise in heat exchanger design and district heating networks, VITO plays a key role in designing and modelling heat exchangers for waste heat recovery. Additionally, VITO focuses on digitalization in district heating networks to optimize heat demand matching.
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ)
DBFZ is tasked with developing a gamification concept for stakeholder engagement and conducting socioeconomic analyses. They facilitate stakeholder-related activities and assessments to ensure effective project implementation.
University Polytechnic of Marche (UPM)
UPM contributes to health and safety assessments and conducts Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for CO2 capture and water savings. Their expertise in digital twins supports project evaluations and assessments.
PDMFC
PDMFC is an IT company with a strong presence in Information Systems since 1993, supplying and implementing state-of-the-art solutions in both T&M and turnkey projects. PDMFC will contribute with the development of the software modelling tools.
Enertime
Enertime is an industrial SME focused on fighting global warming by developing innovative thermodynamic solutions for CO2-free energy production, industrial energy efficiency, and circular economy. In HURRICANE, Enertime designs and builds a heat pump that will be integrated into the AMB ecosystem.
Municipality of Zelzate
Initially, the heat network is being constructed towards the Sint-Jan-Baptist Psychiatric Center in Zelzate territory. A possible goal is to build the heat network further towards the center of the municipality, so that the swimming pool, schools, residential areas, and other projects can use the residual heat from ArcelorMittal. Zelzate supports and facilitates the HURRICANE project. The municipality is not a lead agency.
Province East-Flanders
The Province of East-Flanders plays a role as a partner, initiator, or intermediary in sectors like the economy, agriculture, housing, environment, and more, always striving for innovation and improvement of quality of life.
Finarmit
As a sustainable energy solutions investor, Finarmit collaborates with ArcelorMittal Belgium on projects aimed at enhancing sustainability. They focus on realizing steam expansion turbines for energy recovery. Finarmit is a 100% subsidiary of FINEG.
Sint-Jan-Baptist (SJB)
SJB aims to utilize waste heat from ArcelorMittal to heat their psychiatric care facilities, contributing to the realization of the heat grid.
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