Industry Opportunity Atlas

Start with your industry’s heating and cooling tasks

Choose the pathway closest to your plant. Each route begins with one engineering question, then opens a focused estimator with the source and destination preselected—never with invented project values.

New here? Start with boiler, steam, hot-water or drying questions →

Food processing, cold storage & slaughterhouses

Refrigeration reject heat Direct recovery or heat pump Wash water, CIP, pasteurization

First screening questionCan cleaning hot water and refrigeration reject heat be matched in temperature and time?

Ammonia refrigeration & reject-heat recovery

Discharge, condensation, subcooling Desuperheater, condenser recovery, booster Hot water or process heat

First screening questionCan useful heat be delivered without permanently raising head pressure?

Paper, drying & humid exhaust

Warm humid exhaust Cooling + dehumidification + heat pump Drying-air reheat

First screening questionCould exhaust heat help with drying? Check the required temperature, air flow, humidity and condensate first.

Chemical, pharmaceutical, steam & MVR

Process vapor or condensable stream Closed heat pump or open-cycle MVR High-temperature heat or steam

First screening questionWhich steam or process-heating duty deserves assessment? First establish its temperature, vapor state and process constraints.

Wastewater, process liquids & heat networks

Wastewater or liquid stream Heat exchanger + heat pump Hot-water loop or district heating

First screening questionAre flow, fouling, minimum outlet temperature and seasonal demand measured?

Economics, COP, tariffs & payback

Measured source + demand Seasonal system performance Delivered-heat cost and carbon

First screening questionDoes the saving survive auxiliaries, downtime, integration scope and real tariffs?

How to use the atlas

  1. Pick the real process demand first; do not begin with a catalogue heat-pump model.
  2. Measure source and demand at the same time, including flow, temperatures and operating schedule.
  3. Compare direct recovery before temperature upgrade, then include auxiliaries and integration losses.
  4. Use screening to decide advance, measure, or pause—not to purchase equipment.