Annual seminar on digitalisation of refrigeration and heat pump systems

• Manufacturers of cooling and heat pump systems.
• Manufacturers of components and control systems for cooling and heat pump systems.
• Operators of cooling and heat pump systems, including areas such as supermarkets, district heating, and facility management.
• Consulting engineers.
• Researchers working with cooling and heat pump technology.
• Stakeholders involved in Power-to-X (PtX) technologies.
• Stakeholders working with thermal energy storage.

Programme

• 9:00 – 9:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
  Participants arrive, register, and network over coffee
• 9:30 – 9:40 Opening
  Speaker: Francesco D’Ettorre, Danish Technological Institute
  •Welcome address by the conference host.
  •Overview of the theme and objectives of the conference.
• 9:40 – 10:15Keynote I
  Title: How to balance a renewable-dominated electricity system: The need for flexible consumption is rising!
  Speaker: Simon Hedegård Jessen, Energinet
• 10:15 – 10:30Coffee Break

Technical Session: Large-scale heat pumps:

• 10:30 – 10:50: Real time digital twins for DH grids and industrial heat
  Speaker: Steen Schelle Jensen, Gradyent
• 10:50 – 11:10: From Physical to Digital: digital shadow of a high-temperature heat pump
  Speaker: (add Kenneth fra Aarhus) Pierre-Jean Emmanuel Delêtre, Danish Technological Institute
• 11:10 – 11:30: Developing digital tools for production planning and performance prediction of heat pumps for district heating
  Speaker: Jacob Østergaard & Jakob Junge Krog, Clean Heat Partners

11:30 – 12:15Lunch Break

Technical Session: Refrigeration systems:

• 12:15 – 12:35: Optimal control of heat recovery based on time-varying electricity prices
  Speaker: Francesco D’Ettorre, Danish Technological Institute
• 12:35 – 12.55: Tapping into Supermarkets’ Demand-Side Flexibility
  Speaker: Mogens Birkelund, SC Nordic
• 12:55 – 13:15: Alsense: Where refrigeration knowledge meets digital energy flexibility for supermarket fleets
  Speaker: Hanna Zoon, Product Owner, Danfoss

13:15 – 13:30Coffe Break

Technical Session: Small scale heat pumps:

• 13:30 – 13.50: Heat Pumps, AI and digital twins: Realising residential energy flexibility via retrofitting
  Speaker: Peter Gjøl Jensen, CEDAR
• 13:50 – 14:10: Update from the Heat Pump Lab
  Speaker: Wiebke Meesenburg, DTU Construct
• 14:10 – 14:30: Andel FlexPlatform
  Speaker: Andel Energi

14:30 – 14:45Coffee Break & Networking

Technical Session: Power-to-X:

• 14:45 – 15.05: Digitalization and Test for Dynamic and Flexible Operation of PtX Components and Systems (DynFlex)
  Speaker: Gunnar Rohde, Danish Technological Institute
• 15:05 – 15:25: From Preventive Maintenance to Ancillary Services: Unlocking Flexibility with IoT
  Speaker: Peter Hansen, Inuatek
• 15:25 – 15:45: Challenges with sector coupling and "balancing" a full scale PtX plant
  Speaker: Martin Nielsen, Arcadia eFuels

15:45Closing

• Speaker: Francesco D’Ettorre, Danish Technological Institute
  •Summary of key takeaways from the conference
  •Acknowledgment of participants, sponsors, and organizers