Thermal energy for district heating from exhaust fumes in industrial glassworks

The multinational Vidrala Encirc, a leader in the production of glass bottles, is providing sustainable thermal energy to meet the needs of the district heating network in Corsico, Italy.

Renovis Energy designed and built this project and offered an end-to-end service, providing the necessary equipment and ongoing engineering and installation support.

What Renovis Energy has created for Vidrala Encirc is a heat recovery system now fully operational at the Vidrala plant in Corsico (MI) which draws thermal energy from the exhaust fumes from the melting of glass.

The plant was designed, built and connected to the Thermal Plant managed by ATECC (a company that manages the district heating network of the Municipality of Corsico together with ENGIE) and allows the production of superheated water at 110 ° C for a total thermal power of approximately 3,500 kW.

The plant contributes to almost entirely fill the thermal energy needs necessary for the Corsico district heating network, serving about 30 buildings connected to this system and some of which are of public utility.

Furthermore, the plant built by RENOVIS, by replacing heat obtained by recovering thermal energy from waste heat rather than with the combustion of natural gas, avoids the emission of approximately 2,870 tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.