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  Research question: How can AB InBev implement Concentrated Solar Power for generating process heat used in production? What? What Technology? (See video for suggestions). What Context? What are the relevant technical issues/specifications for this technology? Small scale concentrated solar power in a parabolic trough layout, used for generating process heat for industry. In our case this will be aimed at AB InBev, the biggest brewery in the world. Technical issues and challenges are mostly related to geography and scalability. Energy storage is also a challenge Why? Why choose this question? Why interested? What do you already know? What do you not know and want to find out? Your goal: which result do you expect? Think as an Industrial Engineer! It is an upcoming technology that reduces carbon emissions for generating process heat. It also has a short time for ROI and a modular formfactor.

Ab InBev is a multinational brewing company located in Leuven Belgium. Currently they are based in more than 50 countries with about 169,000 employees. They sell more than 500 brands of beer in 100+ countries. The estimated production can be divided in five regions as seen in the figure above and amounts to 581,678,000 hectoliters in 2021 and in 2022 to 595,133,000 hectoliters. These production numbers are estimated on the sales which amounted to these totals. For these sales a gross profit of respectively 2021 and 2022 amounted to 31,207 million US dollar and 31,481 million US dollar. AB InBev has set sustainability goals for the year 2025 to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are as follows: By 2025, 100% of our direct farmers will be skilled, connected, and financially empowered. By 2025, 100% of our communities in high-stress areas will have measurably improved water availability and quality. 100% of our product will be in packaging that is re

CSP impact on product Because CSP has no direct impact on the product itself and only changes how the materials are heated, there is no direct impact on the taste of the brewed goods. The most noticeable difference between the current production process and the change with CSP will be a lower production cost. The production cost will be decreased and the brewing process will be more sustainable. The current production method which uses gas to heat up the materials for the duration of the production time equates to 24 euros per hectoliter. While the change to CSP will fully eliminate the cost of heating the product, it’s still important to keep in mind that the investment has to be paid off which will take 595.133.000hL*60kWh*0,2751€/kWh = 9.823.265.298€ in energy costs that can be brought down to 595.133.000hL*60kWh*0,118€/kWh = 4.213.541.640€ CSP impact on Process in contect with AB Inbev Here's a general outline of how CSP can be integrated into the brewery process at Heine

In order to ensure thermal energy for its beer brewery in Quart de Poblet, eastern Spain, Heineken NV has really started construction on a concentrated solar power (CSP) facility, marking the beginning of the nation's second CSP-based self-consumption project. The information was disclosed on Wednesday by the brewer's Spanish branch and the local solar thermal expert CSIN, who will construct the plant on Heineken's property and provide thermal energy to the beer manufacturing facility for 15 years. The CSP facility will then be available for purchase by Heineken Spain, the company said. The total investment for the project is EUR 2.2 million (USD 2.3 million). The Quart de Poblet solar field will undoubtedly have a surface area of close to 6,000 square meters (64,583 square feet). The facility will have thermal energy storage and trough mirrors to collect sunlight and heat water in the pipelines to 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees F). With the entire arrangement, Heineken S

Investment Costs The investment cost for a PT plant depends on the thermal storage and the capacity factor. The cost for aan PT plant are: Thermal storage Capacity factor Costs in USD No 20-25% 4,600-7,100/kW 4-6,5 hours >40% 7,300-91,00/kW     The costs of a 50 MW PT plant with a storage capacity of 7.5 hours has an estimated cost of USD 364 million or 7280/kW. The costs can be broken down in to multiple elements: The solar field (510,000 m2) is 38,5% of the costs Support structure (10,7%) Receivers (7,1%) Mirrors (6,4%) Heat transfer system (5,4%) Fluid (2,1%) Thermal storage system is 10,5% of the costs Salt (5%) Storage tanks (2%) Power block, balance of plant and grid connections account for 14% of the costs Labor for 500 persons for the plan construction is 17% of the costs EPC and financing costs are 19,5% of the costs

 

 Beer brewing process: The assignment focuses on pilsner. Pilsner uses a bottom fermentation on the beer. The brewing process takes place at around 10 degrees Celsius. The brewing process can take several weeks. During these weeks the yeast can settle to the top of the fermentation tanks. This is where the name bottom fermentation comes from. The beer brewing process consists of 7 steps: - Malting - Mashing - Lautering - Boiling - Fermenting - Filtering and conditioning - Bottling

In Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants, mirrors focus sunlight to generate heat and steam, producing electricity through a conventional thermodynamic cycle. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, which utilize both direct and diffuse sunlight, CSP utilizes only the direct component known as Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI). CSP plants can integrate a heat storage system, allowing for electricity generation even during cloudy weather or after sunset. Thermal storage substantially enhances the capacity factor and dispatchability of CSP in comparison to PV and wind power. It is possible to classify CSP systems according to the mechanism by which the solar collectors concentrate solar irradiation: either “linear concentrating” or “point concentrating” varieties. Most existing systems use linear concentrating systems called parabolic trough collectors. Solar towers, sometimes also known as power towers, are the most widely deployed point concentrating CSP technology, but represented only