This company converts renewable electricity into high-temperature heat, providing a storable energy source for industrial processes. By replacing fossil fuels with renewable electricity, they aim to decarbonize energy-intensive industries.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Energy-intensive industries rely heavily on fossil fuels for high-temperature process heat, contributing significantly to global CO2 emissions. Existing carbon-neutral alternatives are either not cost-competitive or difficult to integrate into existing infrastructure.
Solution
Heatrix provides a solution for decarbonizing high-temperature industrial heat by converting renewable electricity into storable thermal energy. The Heatrix system combines an electric resistance heater with thermal energy storage, delivering continuous process heat at temperatures up to 1500°C. This allows industries to replace fossil fuel burners with a carbon-free alternative that is cost-competitive with fossil fuels and cheaper than green hydrogen. The modular container system enables easy scalability and integration with minimal retrofitting needs.
Target Audience
Heatrix targets energy-intensive industries such as calcination, heat treatment, sintering, and pelletization, seeking to reduce their carbon footprint and fuel consumption.
Features
- Electric resistance heating for high-efficiency conversion of renewable electricity to heat
- Thermal storage for up to 20 hours of continuous heat delivery, enabling 24/7 operation
- Process heat (hot air) output up to 1500 °C
- Modular container system for easy scalability and industry-agnostic application
- Integration with shaft calciners or precalciners of rotary kilns for calcination processes
- Hot air flow for heat treatment ovens
- Heat supply for sintering or pelletization plants
- Preheating of materials in combination with existing burner systems