Low-Carbon Industrial Heating in the EU and UK: Integrating Waste Heat Recovery, High-Temperature Heat Pumps, and Hydrogen Technologies

This research introduces a two-stage, low-carbon industrial heating process, leveraging advanced waste heat recovery (WHR) technologies and exploiting waste heat (WH) to drive decentralised hydrogen production. This study is supported by a data-driven analysis of individual technologies, followed by...

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Published in:	Energies
Main Author:	Pouriya H. Niknam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2025-08-01
Subjects:	industrial heating industrial decarbonisation high-temperature heat pump (HTHP) waste heat recovery (WHR) green hydrogen electrolysis
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/16/4313

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