ABOUT THE PROJECT

Although responsible for about 10% of global CO₂ emissions, no solution exists today for renewable industrial heat at temperatures >1200°C that is technically viable and cost-efficient. Therefore, many industrial processes which aspire to be fully electrified still rely on a flame as a heat source.

HyperHeat is developing a novel low-cost industrial heater using oxide ceramics for ultra-hot resistive heating. This heater can be compared to a super-hot electric hair dryer that can be a drop-in replacement for a natural gas burner. Current high temperature electrical heaters experience rapid burner degradation which limits the lifetime of the unit. In Hyperheat’s design, ceramic electrical wires get very hot, transforming electricity directly into heat with close to 100% efficiency and mitigating the major degenerative problems seen in today’s electrical heaters.

When powered by renewable electricity, this heater can rapidly decarbonize high-temperature (up to 2000°C) processes in industries like steel, cement and base chemicals through cost-efficient retrofitting.