Takeda Vienna AHEAD: heat pump plus steam compressor to 11 bar(a) / 184°C
Public sources (SPH and the NEFI AHEAD demo card): at Takeda's Vienna pharmaceutical site, a butane heat pump and a Spilling steam compressor are reported to deliver about 2.5 t/h at 11 bar(a) / 184°C. Commissioning is given as September 2025. Not independently metered here.
工程数据
- Case type
- Public-source case
- Data status
- public_source
- Industry
- Pharma
- Source temperature
- 70°C
- Sink temperature
- 184°C
- Temperature lift
- ≈ 114 K
- Heating or cooling duty
- 1700 kW
- Architecture
- SPH steam-generating heat pump to about 115–120°C, then a Spilling steam compressor to 11 bar(a) / 184°C
- Result status
- SPH states commissioning in September 2025. The demo card says scientific monitoring beyond 4,000 h was still planned, with results expected in 2026. A COP near 4.4 is quoted for the heat-pump stage (steam near 120°C), not for the 184°C delivery after the steam compressor.
- Key risk
- Do not read the stage COP of about 4.4 as the COP of 184°C steam. Long-run monitored results were not yet published in the card used here.
- Existing system
- Natural-gas steam for pharmaceutical production and sterilization; waste heat available from site refrigeration / an existing hot-water heat pump
- Refrigerant
- R600 (n-butane) on the heat pump; R718 (water) on the steam compressor
- COP
- Not disclosed
- Annual savings
- Source-reported: up to about 1,600 t/a CO₂ and up to about 80% of steam-related emissions at the site, with nearly CO₂-free steam for about seven months — not remeasured here
- Estimated payback
- Not disclosed in the sources used here
项目背景
The AHEAD project (Advanced Heat Pump Demonstrator) is a named installation at Takeda's pharmaceutical campus in Vienna, with AIT and SPH, funded under Austria's NEFI programme. It is a public-source process-steam case, separate from this site's anonymized field surveys.
叙述性输入
Source: about 70°C hot water. Sink: steam at 11 bar(a) / 184°C, about 2.5 t/h and 1.7 MW thermal as reported for the heat-pump rating. The first stage uses n-butane; the second stage compresses steam.
热泵方案
The SPH heat pump turns the hot-water source into steam near 115–120°C (about 1.9 bar(a) in one SPH description). A Spilling steam compressor then raises that steam to about 11 bar(a) and 184°C for pharmaceutical duties.
COP 与节能
Reported heat-pump COP is about 4.4 at a maximum heating capacity of 1.7 MW while producing steam near 120°C. Delivery to the plant is described as 2.5 t/h at 184°C after vapor compression. CO₂ savings up to about 1,600 t/a are source claims. The demo card lists operating hours as commissioning in September 2025, with further monitoring results expected in 2026.
投资回报要点
Capital cost and payback are not in the sources used here. Emissions claims stay labeled as project statements.