Sector process templates
Food, dairy, chemicals and more — stages with temperatures, durations, thermal service, and heat-recovery flags loaded into 3D and flow views.
OptiFEMINNOV8HEAT
OptiFEMINNOV8HEAT
OptiFEM
Modelling, simulation, and decision support for high-temperature heat pumps, PCM storage, and flexible industrial demand — built for INNOV8HEAT.
The platform
Load a sector process, inspect thermal opportunities, size PCM stores with FEM, and compare scenarios — then walk the system concept end to end.
In place now
Shipped capabilities in the Industrial Thermal Simulation Lab and supporting catalogues.
Food, dairy, chemicals and more — stages with temperatures, durations, thermal service, and heat-recovery flags loaded into 3D and flow views.
Data-driven process schematic coloured by temperature, with connectors, ΔT chips, and illustrative unit contours (not a CFD solve).
ROM lookup and full enthalpy-method solves write capacity, charge/discharge rates, and UA back to the unit envelope with provenance.
Click a 3D unit for HTHP / PCM / HR suitability plus indicative energy, fossil, CO₂ and cost reduction ranges.
HTHP and PCM libraries, site overrides, datasets, and project save/load under the workspace tree.
Results & KPIs, load & price, pinch & composite, streams & HR, and side-by-side scenario comparison.
Thermal Lab
The isometric 3D model and Process Flow share the same template. Colour by thermal service, HR candidacy, or HTHP/PCM suitability. Run Process narrates the line stage by stage.
System concept
An interactive diagram of how curtailed renewables, heat pumps, PCM banks, plant demand, and flexibility markets fit together — with a seven-step story mode.
INNOV8HEAT
OptiFEM is the decision-support layer for INNOV8HEAT: convert surplus renewable electricity into process heat, buffer it in PCM, and dispatch against price, carbon and grid signals — without compromising production.
Sign in to load a sector template, explore the Thermal Lab, or walk the architecture story first.