GIFFT AT WORKSHOP ON THE DECARBONIZATION OF ENERGY-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES

Transform industries through sustainable combustion is a mission of the CYPHER COST Action. On 10-12 April, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the first CYPHER General Meeting brought together European researchers and industrial stakeholders to discuss the latest developments in combustion, advanced simulations, hybrid physics-based models, and digital twins aimed at decarbonising energy-intensive industries.
During the event, a pioneering initiative of the GIFFT project was presented, which aims to develop a plasma-assisted combustion technology for the industrial glass sector. Dr Nerijus Striūgas, a leading scientist at the Lithuanian Energy Institute, unveiled the project with a poster titled "Decarbonising energy-intensive industries with plasma-assisted combustion" and shared some initial results of e-boosted H2 and CH4 oxy-combustion tests.
The innovative key feature of the GIFFT combustion concept is based on the drastic reduction of CO2 emissions coming from the combustion process using the plasma burner optimised to work with green gases in the load range up to 100% and up to 25-50% of the total energy released coming from renewable electricity.