Malt house Croatia (Boortmalt Group)

Project coordinator

Newheat

Project summary

The DECARBOMALT project will build a solar thermal heating plant, heat pumps and a storage facility to provide renewable heat to an energy-intensive  malt production plant in Croatia.

The flagship industrial project will bring existing technologies together for the first time at such a scale so as to deliver more than 50% of the total process heat needs of the site at a competitive price

It is co-financed by the European Commission’s Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes (€20 billion over 2020-2030) for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies, under its first call for projects.

Heat customer introduction

• Boortmalt Group malthouse, world leader in malting with 27 production sites on 5 continents
• Badass Barley Malt production site

Solar thermal integration

The solar thermal plant combined with a storage tank and two types of heat pumps will allow the air used for drying the malt to be preheated.

Key innovations

Integration of 2 types of  heat pumps:

•  water-water
•  water-air

Innovation Fund grant

4 499 338 EUR

This project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or  European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.