REEMAIN | Resource and Energy Efficient Manufacturing

Summary

REEMAIN combines cutting edge knowledge and experience from production processes, professional energy simulation, energy and resource planning, and renewable energy and storage to develop and demonstrate a methodology and platform for the boost, of efficiency resources.

Based on the knowledge of who are the energy consumers in manufacturing REEMAIN offers 3 solutions.

  1. Innovation in technologies for better use of renewables.
  2. Predictive simulation models for production.
  3. Factory energy and resource planning tools.

These solutions will first be validated at the Fraunhofer IWU “Research Factory”. After that, REEMAIN demonstration activities will take place in 3 different strategic EU factories: Bossa textiles, Gullon biscuits and SCM foundry.

Through these factories, REEMAIN will demonstrate to industries which account for more than 50% of CO2 emissions and more than 20% consumption of electricity in industry. These industries represent a balance between carbon-embodied production and energy intensive sectors.

REEMAIN will pursue four high impact exploitation avenues.

  1. We will link to existing Standards and eco-factory labeling concepts.
  2. We will lead an “MTP project extension”
  3. We will participate in the creation of CEN workshops, CEN technical committees or standards.
  4. We will communicate REeMAIN project results to target.

Within this framework, REEMAIN then moves toward zero carbon manufacturing and Energy Efficiency 2.0 through the intelligent employment of renewable energy technologies and resource saving strategies that consider energy purchase, generation, conversion, distribution, utilization, control, storage, re-use in a holistic and integrated way. Our vision is that Europe REEMAINs the world leader in sustainability through energy and resource efficient manufacturing.

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Web resources: http://www.reemain.eu
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/608977
Start date: 01-10-2013
End date: 30-09-2017
Total budget - Public funding: 9 800 713,00 Euro - 6 098 037,00 Euro
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Original description

REEMAIN combines cutting edge knowledge and experience from production processes, professional energy simulation, energy and resource planning, and renewable energy and storage to develop and demonstrate a methodology and platform for the boost, of efficiency resources.

Based on the knowledge of who are the energy consumers in manufacturing REEMAIN offers 3 solutions. 1) Innovation in technologies for better use of renewables. 2) Predictive simulation models for production. 3) Factory energy and resource planning tools.

The project will try to validate all the solutions in the Fraunhofer IWU “Research Factory”. After that, REEMAIN demonstration activities will take place in 3 different strategic EU factories: Bossa textiles, Gullon biscuits and SCM foundry. Through these factories, REEMAIN will demonstrate to industries which account for more than 50% of CO2 emissions and more than 20% consumption of electricity in industry. These industries represent a balance between carbon-embodied production and energy intensive sectors.

REEMAIN will pursue four high impact exploitation avenues. 1) We will link to existing Standards and eco-factory labeling concepts. 2) We will lead an “MTP project extension” 3) We will participate in the creation of CEN workshops, CEN technical committees or standards. 4) we will communicate REeMAIN project results to target.

Within this framework, REEMAIN then moves toward zero carbon manufacturing and Energy Efficiency 2.0 through the intelligent employment of renewable energy technologies and resource saving strategies that consider energy purchase, generation, conversion, distribution, utilization, control, storage, re-use in a holistic and integrated way.

Our vision is that Europe REEMAINs the world leader in sustainability through energy and resource efficient manufacturing.

Status

ONG

Call topic

FoF.NMP.2013-1

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership

FP7 - Factories of the Future
FP7-FoF-2013
FoF.NMP.2013-1 - Improved use of renewable resources at factory level
DEMO-targeted collaborative project
Standards
Comment: Continuous screening of affected standards to contribute at the end of the project to ongoing technical commitees.
Contribution of project to standardisation
Comment: We are defining our roadmap for standardization activities with the help of the Spanish standardization body and REEMAIN partner AENOR
Economic sustainability
Environmental sustainability
Material efficiency
Reduction of material consumption (in %)
0
Comment: Bossa is saving Sulfuric (objective 100%) acid and instead using carbonic acid (CO2) to perform and ecofriendly waste water treatment
Circular economy
Co-evolution of products-processes-production systems (‘industrial symbiosis’)
Reducing emissions in manufacturing processes
Comment: REEMAIN seeks to develop a specific methodlogy related to technical aspects involving the coordination of production and energy available, with the minimization of lower emissions as a primary target.
Reduction of CO2 emissions (in %)
0
Comment: Baseline stated at the begining of the project. The evaluation of the demonstrations have just started but it is not ready yet.
Reducing the consumption of energy
Comment: Working under the seamless integration of renewables, specially the ones providing direct thermal energy for the processes.
Reduction of energy consumption (in %)
0
Comment: Baseline stated at the begining of the project. The evaluation of the demonstrations have just started but it is not ready yet.
Increase usage of renewable energy
Reducing the consumption of water and other process resources.
Mechatronics and robotics technologies
Control technologies
Energy technologies
Comment: REEMAIN wants to innovate in renewable energy technologies like solar thermal concentration or electricity storage.
Engineering tools
System modelling - digital twins, simulation
Comment:

Development of holistic simulation platform for factories integrating the production, energy and environmental aspects.

Manufacturing the products of the future
Resource efficient, sustainable products
C10 Manufacture of food products
C13 Manufacture of textiles
C17 Manufacture of paper and paper products
C25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment