Johan Van Bael - VITO / EnergyVille (Academia) & David Steen - Daikin Europe (Industry)

Thermal energy systems have a central role both in residential and industrial applications. 
The heating and cooling demand in the residential sector corresponds to about 50% of final energy consumption and its decarbonization is one of the major challenges for the energy transition. The solutions to reduce primary energy use in this sector are identified in: (i) use of more energy efficient technologies, (ii) RES integration, (iii) flexible use of energy, (iv) digitalization/automation. 
In this presentation two aspects will be further highlighted. 
 
It is important to have a heat exchanger with a high effectiveness and reduced pressure drop, but from the other side it is also important to minimize the usage of material and in some cases also the size/dimension needs to be minimized (or fit within certain boundary conditions).  
In the presentation Energyville will give a view on how advanced design and optimization of heat exchangers based on new macro-scale modelling techniques for fast evaluation of ‘average’ flow and temperature in heat transfer devices with fin arrays can be performed. 
 
Daikin Europe N.V. will give an overview on different innovations in heat pump technologies for the building sector. This will be shown through the products that were developed in the EMEA Development Center headquarters located Belgium.