Open Thermal AI

Open Thermal AI (OTAI / 开热智) starts from the heat a plant already uses or rejects, offering heating knowledge, waste-heat and industrial heat-pump guides, and early heat-pump go/no-go screening, auditable calculations, risk prompts, knowledge, and case reading guides. Facts, calculation assumptions and missing information are distinguished; screening does not replace design or procurement review.

Jing Yanrong (荆炎荣) is the founder of Open Thermal AI, organizing refrigeration and heat-pump knowledge, project-screening methods and cases. See the founder profile for the detailed biography.

Core knowledge, basic project screening and public calculation tools remain free through at least September 2028. We do not sell user or project data. Suppliers cannot buy recommendations or rankings; sponsorship and commercial relationships are disclosed.

Food processing & cold chain
The anonymized meat-plant reference combines author site observations and plant feedback. Its economics have not been independently verified by metering.
https://www.openthermalai.com/en/insights/food-processing-heat-pump-opportunity-map.html

Pulp & paper
The linked paper-mill case is an external public-source account, not a project delivered or independently metered by this site. Mill-specific conditions require a paper-industry specialist.
https://www.openthermalai.com/en/cases/delfort-turboden-steam-hp.html

Chemicals & process heating
The BASF entry is recorded as under construction in its cited sources. Planned capacity and emissions estimates are not operating results or this site’s delivery record.
https://www.openthermalai.com/en/insights/industrial-heat-pump-project-viability.html

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Material version: 2026-10-14. Refer to each case’s cited sources and dates for its status and figures.

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