SPIRE

Sustainable Process Industry

European Industrial Competitiveness through Resource and Energy Efficiency

Lionel Platteuw EUnited

SPIRE: Sustainable Process Industry

What is SPIRE?• SPIRE = Sustainable Process Industry in Resource

and Energy Efficiency• A proposal for a European Private Public Partnership

(PPP) dedicated to innovation in resource and energy efficiency in the process industries

Objective• To address European Industrial Competitiveness in

terms of global competitiveness, ecology and employment.

• To develop the enabling technologies and solutions along the value chain, required to reach long term sustainability for Europe

SPIRE

Sustainable Process Industry

European Industrial Competitiveness through Resource and Energy Efficiency

“REP” is a group of European Technology Platforms and Associations motivated to promote resource and energy efficiency in process industries, representing:

Resource and Energy Efficiency Partnership

• More than 450 thousand enterprises. • Employ over 6.8 million employees, • Generating more than 1,600 billion € turnover• The founding basis of the European Economy (20%)• Struggling with declining global competitiveness

European Engineering Industries Association

Cleaning

Metallurgy

Municipal

Robotics

Valves

Cleaning

Metallurgy

Municipal

Robotics

Valves

5 sectors - more than 100 specialised companies, approximately half are SMEs

Member companies in Eunited Metallurgy:

Origin of SPIRE – Prima Mobile

Industry’s response to real, tangible and urgent needs• Industry has a responsibility and unique ability to respond to these challenges, by

providing adapted solutions. More specifically SPIRE is addressing three fundamental European challenges:• urgency to create growth and increase the competitiveness of Europe in a global

market, • need to rejuvenate the European process industry that is the basis of the

European economy in terms of turnover, employment and generation of technologies for all industrial sectors

• imperative to reduce resource and energy inefficiency and the environmental impact of industrial activities.

Process Industries in the Value Chain

Process Industry: Chemical, biochemical, and physical transformation and formulation of raw materials using continuous and batch processes into Materials with new properties and functionalities

Raw Materials

Components & Products

Discrete Manufacturing:

SPIRE Ambitions

• A reduction in fossil energy intensity of up to 30% from current levels by 2030 through a combination of, for example, cogeneration-heat-power, process intensification, introduction of novel energy-saving processes, and progressive introduction of alternative (renewable) energy sources within the process cycle.

• By 2030, up to 20% reduction in non-renewable, primary raw material intensity versus current levels, by increasing chemical and physical transformation yields and/or using secondary and renewable raw materials. A full life cycle cost analysis is required to consider all effects of using secondary and renewable feedstocks (e.g. water usage) and to prove the sustainability advantage.

Both these aspirations will make a significant contribution to the political and societal objectives of drastic efficiency improvement in CO2-equivalent footprints of up to

40% by 2030. Potential improvements extend beyond “industry” to all indirectly supplied and dependent economic sectors such as transport, construction, water, electronics etc.

Note: The reference data is based on Eurostat.data and definition of ‘current level’ is the period 2008-2011.

“do more with less”

Vision for the Innovation Landscape

FuturePPP’s

SPIRESustainable Process Industry

SPIRE

Industrial Competitiveness

Water EIP

A Bioeconomy for Europe

SPIRE Status

HORIZON2020 - COM(2011) 811 final (p42) , COM(2011) 809 final (p51)

1.5.3. Sustainable and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industriesIncreasing the competitiveness of process industries, such as chemical, pulp and paper, glass,or non-ferrous metals and steel by drastically improving resource and energy efficiencies andreducing the environmental impact of such industrial activities. Focus will be on thedevelopment, and validation of enabling technologies for innovative substances, materials andtechnological solutions for low-carbon products and less energy-intensive processes andservices along the value chain, as well as the adoption of ultra-low carbon productiontechnologies and techniques to achieve specific GHG emission intensity reductions.

SPIRE Roadmap ComponentsEnergy and Resource Efficiency

Process

Waste to Resource

Recycle/End-of-lifeWaste

Feed

Water

Energy

MarketsApplicationsProductsMaterials

SPIRE – Building the roadmap

WORKING GROUPS

Cement

FEED PROCESS WASTE T0 RESOURCE

APPLICATIONS

Ceramics

Chemical(bio)

Minerals

Non-ferrous

Paper

Steel

Horizontal e.g. Water & Engineering

• Formally organise Private sector, partner to Public sector

• Modelled after EFFRA and E2BA

• Drive approval of, and define content proposal for PPP

• Open up to industrial and research members

• Industrial – Process, Partner

• Research

• Associated

• Participation in roadmap design, voting rights in general

assembly

• Project participation in PPP (and associated specific

financial commitment) will be (open) call driven

Association SPIRE AISBL

Association SPIREConfirmed Members

Associations

Science

Industry

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