Qpinch

Significantly higher gas prices than in the past, rising CO₂ taxes, legal restrictions: industrial companies are facing these kinds of challenges. In that respect, they have a lot to gain from energy efficiency by valorising industrial residual heat. This happens to be the energy source that all countries have in abundance. At least, that is what the Energy Efficiency Market Report published by the International Energy Agency in 2016 stated. What if we could gain more access to this untapped potential?

Qpinch has already taken a big step forward. The spin-off from Ghent University has developed a revolutionary technology to recover industrial residual heat. Inspired by the so-called ATP-ADP cycle, the mechanism of a cell that captures and releases energy, Qpinch created an innovative chemical water pump. It scaled up the principles from microscopic to industrial size and can thus recover much of the energy that is currently lost in industrial processes. The important results are lower CO₂ emissions and lower production costs.