Lead the revolution towards more efficient furnaces

VULKANO is already helping Europe’s industrial fabric to increase its competitiveness in the market by overcoming the challenges in terms of efficiency, reliability and adaptation. Discover the integrated VULKANO solution, offering a furnace conditioning system for manufacturers and end users that integrates 5 innovative service

Optimizing the design of industrial furnaces

Vulkano has developed a holistic in-house predictive tool that provides the necessary support to optimize the design of natural gas furnaces from the technical, economic and environmental points of view.

VULKANO: Towards eco-efficient industrial furnaces

The main goal of the Vulkano project is the retrofitting of two types of industrial furnaces ? on three energy-intensive sectors, through the combined implementation of 5 key aspects into an integrated solution. VULKANO is a project funded by the European Commission in the Horizon2020 programme.

Integrated solution

Improved Refractory Materials

Development and implementation of new alternative materials for high-temperature, high-alkali environments capable to operate at higher temperatures or/and for longer periods of time.

PCM-Based Energy Recovery

PCM has a double purpose acting as a physical filter which is able to recover energy at the same time that smooths fluctuations in the temperature profile working similar to a low-pass filter.

Co-firing Second Energy Source

Second energy source from renewable/alternative feedstocks with the aim to substitute the high percentage of natural gas in industrial furnaces.

Integrated Control System

The new and improved control system will directly contribute to achieve a more efficient furnace and consequently important fossil fuel savings.

Holistic In-House Predictive Tool

Decision support tool to optimize the furnace design and its energy and environmental performance, considering the interaction furnace-retrofitting solutions and upstream/downstream processes.

Pilots

Steel sector

Preheating mould furnace

DEMO

Ceramic sector

Melting furnace

DEMO

Aluminium sector

Replication in aluminium sector

DEMO

News and events

TORRECID opens its facilities to demonstrate the operation of the furnaces developed in VULKANO project
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TORRECID opens its facilities to demonstrate the operation of the furnaces developed in VULKANO project

News and events

TORRECID opens its facilities to demonstrate the operation of the furnaces developed in VULKANO project

Fundación CIRCE 2019-10-10T14:11:52+00:00 October 10th, 2019|

This accomplishes one of the objectives of the demonstrator focused on implementing the VULKANO solution in one of its industrial furnaces and increasing its energy [...]

Thermal performance investigation on latent heat thermal storage for waste heat recovery from a high temperature gas flow in energy-intensive industries

Fundación CIRCE 2019-04-26T07:26:18+00:00 April 26th, 2019|

CIRCE has participated in an international conference within the VULKANO framework, focused on its activity in heat recover and storage systems using PCMs. The conference [...]

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