Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 60 No. 1 (2023)   New Products & Technologies
    New Products

    Large-scale Heat Pumps up to 200°C to Play a Crucial Role in the Path for Decarbonization of Heating Sector

    Turboden S.p.A
    Sales and Business Development

    Large Heat Pumps (LHP) are utility-scale heating plants that allow to transfer large quantities of heat from a colder source, like environmental heat or industrial waste heat, to a higher temperature heat user, like a district heating network or an industrial process. Heat Pump technology helps decarbonization path and provide the users with cheap heat generation thus reducing the energy bill. Turboden, by providing innovative large scale heat pumps based on electrically driven turbo compressor technology with a high temperature output up to 200°C, has a target to help all those heat users that are willing to decarbonize their heating supply. Considering the most commonly accepted net zero 2050 target, and given the current technological development in the decarbonization sector, it is necessary to identify CO2 reduction solutions that can be implemented quickly, in the short and medium terms, to achieve the intermediate results, while the future technologies (green hydrogen, CCUS, etc) to achieve the long-term targets are developed. Heat Pump for heat demand decarbonization is for sure a ready to use technology that can help in this. Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group company, is an Italian firm and a global leader during more than 40 years in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems, highly suitable for distributed generation. Ever since founded, Turboden has always acted as pioneer company in the energy efficiency sector. Thanks to the consolidated know how and the strong synergy with MHI, Turboden has introduced new high performance Large Heat Pumps, suitable for high temperatures up to 200°C as well as tradition temperatures, in a range of size starting from 3 to 30 MW heat production.