The Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (IPHE) has secured European funding for a project to develop technology to recover up to 40% of the low grade heat from waste water and use it to reduce energy consumption in domestic dwellings and commercial installations.

The funding has been secured with the help of technology-based innovations specialist Pera Innovation.

The IPHE hopes that the opportunity to recover heat energy from waste water will provide the plumbing sector with a new technology and a value added product that will create an additional European market in installation and maintenance.

Project partners from Poland, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, Spain and the UK propose to develop a low cost, low grade heat exchanger to recover heat from domestic and commercial waste water.

The partners attended the group’s first meeting at the IPHE in September. Kevin Wellman, operations director comments: “Everyone is so enthusiastic about working together on the project. We all have a lot of expertise to offer and I feel confident that we will succeed.”

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