A California-based startup plans to help decarbonize and electrify one of the biggest challenges in industrial development.
According to Canary Media, Kalectra may have come up with a solution to industrial heat problems by using superheated bricks.
There is a big push towards electrification and greening in low-temperature industrial heating for tasks such as cooking and chemical work. However, energizing processes that require high temperatures, such as glass making and the smelting of metals such as iron and aluminum, were much more difficult.
Kalectra’s solution to this problem is to directly energize the special bricks and superheat them, producing both light and heat. The hot air generated around the superheated bricks can be fed into industrial processes to heat whatever needs to be heated.
Conditioning the air to the temperatures required for these tasks is incredibly energy-intensive, and without the use of dirty fuels such as natural gas or coal, even the power levels required are prohibitive for many manufacturers. Canary Media reported that there would be extra costs.
“Industrial heat accounts for a quarter of global energy consumption and is a huge $450 billion market,” Juha Lindfors, partner at Lifeline Ventures, said in a statement regarding the Calectra funding. . opportunity. “
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Calectra’s technology is still in the very early stages of development. The company hopes to expand its team to begin testing the best materials for the process and expand testing to ensure the process performs at the level needed for industrial production.
But if it’s successful, the use of charged bricks could go a long way toward eliminating one of the biggest sources of global warming gases.
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“We are focused on building low-cost, zero-carbon, high-temperature thermal solutions,” said Calectra co-founder Pauliina Meskanen, according to Canary Media. “It’s a risk, but it’s worth a try for the climate.”
Superheated materials are also being investigated as a way to store energy.
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