Forget about Oompa Loompas. The real heroes of the world’s largest chocolate bar factory are the heat pumps.
“Industry is now aware of the possibilities of what they can achieve with heat pumps,” said Veronika Wilk, a senior research engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology, who studies industrial heat pumps. “This is definitely a difference compared to five or seven years before.
Think of the food industry, which must both cook and chill its products. By redirecting heat from its refrigerators to keep its chocolate piping hot, Mars’s Dutch chocolate factory lowered its energy bill by 6 percent, company spokesman Roel Govers said. So far, the factory has installed two heat pumps — the first in 2015 and the second by 2021.
Heat pumps are also proving useful for paper and chemical manufacturing in addition to the food industry..Nowhere is the trend more obvious than in Europe, where manufacturers and municipalities are on edge about potentially being cut off from Russian gas supplies. In
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