Organized by:Industrial Waste Heat Usage
German – Japanese Expert Workshop
19. – 22. April 2021
Organization: ECOS in cooperation with NEDO (New Energy and Industrial TechnologyDevelopment Organization)
Language:

German and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)

Objective:•

to receive first-hand information on the general conditions, the state of the technology, themarket situation and competitors and projects•

to identify cooperation and business opportunities in the field of industrial waste heatutilization•

Present innovative technologies and projects•

Explore funding opportunities for bilateral projects from the Japanese side (e.g., grants forequipment)•To get feedback on opportunities for specific technologies in Japan and Germany•

The opportunity to network

Participants (among others):•

Producers and planners: of ORC system, heat transport systems (e.g., thermo-chemical),heat recovery, etc.

•Users: SME of the food industry (breweries, industrial bakeries, meat processing plants,etc.), metal production- and processing•

Societies: Heat Pump & Thermal Storage Technology Center of Japan, Japan Electro-HeatCenter, Thermal Management Materials and Technology Research Association TherMAT,etc.

•Municipalities

Organized by:Program:(state April 21, 2021)
DayTime(CET)Time(JST)

ProgramMon
April 19,2021

8:3011:45

15:3018:45

German-Japan expert workshop Part 1: Energy efficiency andindustrial waste heat in Germany and Japan for CO2 reduction

8:30

15.30

Opening Words: Peter Beck, ECOS GmbH

8:35

15:35

Greeting addresses: Hisashi YOSHIOKA, Director General, Energy
Conservation Department, NEDO; Ann-Sophie Weihe-Feijó,Division IK III 5 (Climate Protection and Energy Efficiency), Federal
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety BMU

Chair: Dr. Matthias Reckzügel, Hochschule Osnabrück
8:45

15:45

Energy Efficiency in Japan
Ryutaro NAKAYAMA, Assistant Director, Energy Efficiency
Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) /Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

9:00

16:00

Importance of industrial waste heat utilization for theimplementation of climate protection goals in Germany
Dr. Hartmut Versen, Division IIB2, Federal Ministry for Economic
Affairs and Energy BMWi

9:15

16:15

Q&A / Discussion

9:45

16:45

Break

10:05

17:05

Heat transition of the German industry – excess heat as an option
for decarbonisation and flexibilization of energy supply in energy
intensive industriesDr. Jan Steinbach, IREES GmbH - Institute for Resource Efficiency
and Energy Strategies

10:20

17:20

The Potential of Advanced Heat Technologies, Technology
Developments for Utilizing Waste Heat in Japan
Masanori KOBAYASHI, Director, Energy Conservation Technology
Dept., NEDOOrganized by:

10:35

17:35

Waste heat in the municipal context: Successful examples ofmetropolitan and rural regions
Patrick Hoffmann, IZES gGmbH

10:50

17:50

Q&A / Discussion

Chair: Patrick Hoffmann, IZES gGmbH

TueApril 20,
2021

11:05

18:05

Open Roundtable
Key Question: Which policies are needed to promote theincreased use of waste heat in Germany and Japan for
accelerated CO2 reduction?
With introductory speech by Nobutaka TAKEO, Director General,of NEDO Representative Office in Europe

11:45

18:45

End

8:3011:00

15:3018:00

German-Japan expert workshop Part 2: Demand Side HeatManagement

8:30

15:30

Opening Words: Peter Beck, ECOS GmbH

Chair: Masanori KOBAYASHI, NEDO
8:35

15:35

Implementation of Carbon Neutral--Electrification, Demand Side Heat Management-Takashi YATABE
Producer, Engineering Strategy unit, Engineering Management
Office, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.

8:50

15:50

Q&A / Discussion

9:05

16:05

Break

9:15

16:15

Development of Adsorption Thermal Storage System Utilizing
Low-temperature Waste Heat【Including a video】
Dr. Masayuki TANINO, Principal Research Engineer,
Research & Development Center, Takasago Thermal Engineering
Co., Ltd.

9:35

16:35

Q&A / Discussion

9:50

16:50

Recent advance on high-temperature latent heat storage
technology based on micro-encapsulated phase change material
Dr. Takahiro NOMURA, Associate Prof., Faculty of Engineering,
Hokkaido University

10:05

17:05

Q&A / Discussion

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Chair: Masanori KOBAYASHI, NEDO

WedApril 21,
2021

10:20

17:20

Open Roundtable
Key Question: Thermal Storage for Demand Side Waste HeatManagement, mobile and stationary, which materials are
already available today?

11:00

18:00

End

8:3011:25

15:3018:25

German-Japan expert workshop Part 3: Project examples(Germany and Japan)

8:30

15:30

Opening Words: Peter Beck, ECOS GmbH

Chair: Dr. Jan Steinbach, IREES GmbH
8:35

15:35

Potential and Use of Industrial Waste Heat in North Rhine
Westphalia – Provision of information in the provincial heatcadasterNils Dering, State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
Protection (LANUV NRW)

8:50

15:50

Q&A / Discussion

9:05

16:05

Thermal management R&D project for industrial waste heatusage in Japan
Dr. Haruhiko OBARA, Vice-President, Director-General,
Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

9:20

16:20

Q&A / Discussion

9:35

16:35

MosEN - Modelling of local cross-sectoral energy systems
Prof. Matthias Reckzuegel, University of Applied Sciences
Osnabrueck / Energy Competence Center ‘Science to Business’

9:50

16:50

Q&A / Discussion

10:05

17:05

Break

10:15

17:15

Heat Recovery with Thermoelectric Modules – New Production
Process for the Production of TEG and applications
Yikalo Tecle, Evonik Operations GmbH

10:30

17:30

Q&A / Discussion

Chair: Dr. Matthias Reckzügel, Hochschule Osnabrück
10:45

17:45

Open Roundtable

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Key Question: How can a circular economy for waste heatutilization be realized?
Thu
April 22,
2021

11:25

18:25

End

8:3012:20

15:3019:20

German-Japan expert workshop Part 4: Industrial heat pumps
for waste heat utilization

8:30

15:30

Opening Words: Peter Beck, ECOS GmbH

Chair: Tetsushiro IWATSUBO, NEDO
8:35

15:35

Closing energy cycles with heat pumps
Thomas Nowak, Secretary General, European Heat Pump
Association (AISBL)

8:50

15:50

Q&A / Discussion

9:0016:00

Heat pump technologies & Case studies in Japan
Koki WATANABE, Deputy Director, Business Coordination
Department and International & Technical Research Department,
Heat Pump & Thermal Storage Technology Center of Japan

9:15

16:15

Q&A / Discussion

9:25

16:25

High efficient industrial heat pump utilizing waste heat 【Video】<Provided by Japan Electro-Heat Center>

9:35

16:35

Q&A / Discussion

9:45

16:45

Break

10:05

17:05

Heat transition with energy from waste water - The
underestimated potential in the sewer
Rouven Zeus, UHRIG Energie GmbH

10:20

17:20

Q&A / Discussion

10:30

17:30

Heat re-use from data Centers- challenges and opportunities
Dr. Birger Ober, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance

10:45

17:45

Q&A / Discussion

10:55

17:55

Implementations and case studies of novel heat driven chillers
developed in a NEDO project
Tatsuo Fujii, Chief Engineer, Johnson Controls Building Efficiency
Japan

11:10

18:10

Q&A / Discussion

Organized by:

Chair: Tetsushiro IWATSUBO, NEDO
11:20

18:20

Open Roundtable
Key Question: Industrial Heat Pumps – the key for using lowtemperature waste heat?

11:50

18:50

Closing words, Masanori KOBAYASHI, NEDO

12:00

19:00

End