Transformation of energy intensive process industries through integration of energy, process, and feedstock

The glass, copper, aluminium and water industries are known for their energy-intensive processes. The EU-funded TRINEFLEX project aims to implement an integrated energy intensive industries transformation toolkit in five unique demonstration sites. The toolkit will function as an end-to-end service, managing the plant’s digital life cycle and facilitating the transition to flexible and sustainable operation, following the `X-as-a-service model´. This process will rely on advanced and green data acquisition, Big Data infrastructures, process analysis, model development, and digital twins with integrated multi-agent decision support systems. The project will integrate transformative technologies (from energy efficiency, clean energy, sustainable fuels and feedstocks, and carbon capture, usage and storage sectors) in synergy with advanced digital solutions to demonstrate flexibility measures towards energy neutrality.