The ceramics industry is a huge economic sector, worth over €30
billion each year in Europe, but its success demands immense
energy and water. Making just one tonne of tiles consumes about
1,700 kilowatt hours of energy—what an average European
household uses in six months. It also requires around 15 litres of
fresh water per square meter of tile.
In Casalgrande, Northern Italy, Keope Ceramics is actively solving
this resource challenge. They installed a prototype of an
innovative heat-exchange technology developed as part of the
European iWAYS project: The Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser,
short HPCE.
This special technology passively captures waste heat and water
from manufacturing exhaust streams. The core idea is to capture
the moment when valuable water vapor, which carries much of
the wasted energy, cools and releases heat by condensing.
Discover how this technology helps the ceramics industry recover
waste heat, reuse water and drastically reduce emissions.