R&D

Our products and services offer differential cutting-edge technological solutions.

In R&D we adapt the values of KALFRISA: Energy and Environment to the 21st centrury through innovation.

Nowadays these words govern our everyday life in terms of European policies, the media and the strategic plans of the leading multinationals.

However, in the 70s, when the oil crisis dominated the news, our visionary commitment was to seek out a balance between “Energy and the Environment”, and time has proved us right to do so.

This environmental vision, together with our traditional values of quality, commitment to the client and to society, has led KALFRISA to be a leader in its sectors for over 50 years.

KALFRISA is committed to development and innovation as a springboard for transformation, thus enabling the company to stay at the cutting edge in technology, transforming its products and services to face the new necessities of the 21st century, and offering unique solutions to its clients.

This commitment to R&D&I, through the implementation of development projects in an open innovation format in public-private collaboration, places us in an unrivalled position as far as the future of the sector is concerned. It pushes us to continue contributing to the commitment acquired when KALFRISA was founded.

HigH2-Furnaces: HYBRIDIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL FURNACES FOR HIGH H2 REPLACEMENT RATES Digital Technology Projects Industrial Research Activities
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ELECTRIFICATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF A POSTCOMBUSTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC RECYCLING CIRCULARITY (EdPIC)
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LIFE ABATE - Compact, high-performance, marketable technologies for VOC reduction in EU waste treatment plants, reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption.
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Kalfrisa Project: Digitalization and Environment.

Grants for Digital Transformation and Industrial Development (PAIP Grants, TDI-FEDER Line)

  • Project co-financed by the Aragón 2021-2027 ERDF Program.
  • Duration: 2022-2023

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SOLUTIONS FOR EFFICIENT DIGITAL CREMATIONS

The aim is the design of new efficient digital crematory furnaces that tackle advances in combustion and heat transfer and apply technologies to energy efficiency issues, instrumentation, connectivity, operation control, new materials and process data management.

The research, development, design, pilot test and implementation phases are conducted on the client's premises.

  • Project managed by the CDTI and funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation
  • Duration: 2020-2023

HYBRID HYDROGEN FURNACE

The main purpose of the 3H2 is to investigate the technical and critical areas related to the use of green hydrogen and natural gas mixtures as fuel in industrial burners and how to digitize/automate the process.

The project considers the partial replacement of up to 30% of the fuel currently used in furnaces (mainly natural gas) by hydrogen, analysing all those factors that affect combustion itself, and other effects that may happen in the furnace and in the equipment located downstream.

To this end, an industrial prototype hybrid furnace will be designed, built and tested to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this technology in different scenarios where natural gas is replaced by hydrogen.

The technical and economic issues that may arise are evaluated so that we are prepared for future research and development phases. The characteristics of a sustainable and profitable hydrogen supply in the medium term are discussed based on the H2 deployment scenarios proposed by the European Union.

  • Project funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
  • Program supporting Innovative Business Groups (AEI)
  • Duration: 2022

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PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR INDUSTRIAL GAS TREATMENT PLANTS.

At Kalfrisa we are continuously working on improving the efficiency and functionality of our equipment. The use of new technologies in predictive engineering to improve the maintenance of various machines offers a great opportunity for improvement.

The goal of the project is to evolve classical corrective and preventive maintenance techniques into predictive maintenance techniques that allow anticipating maintenance needs and scheduling them in the most favorable way for customers.

The project is coordinated by the Aragon Energy Cluster (CLENAR) and run by Kalfrisa in collaboration with ELECTROENGINEERING. It is funded by the 'Innovative Business Groupings (AEI)' program from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism (AEI file number-010500-2022-22).

  • Project funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
  • Program supporting Innovative Business Groups (AEI)
  • Duration: 2022

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ELECTRIFICATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE REGENERATIVE THERMAL OXIDIZER TO DECARBONISE THE INDUSTRY (E-RTO)

This project targets the development of a Digital Model focused on electrifying and digitalizing the Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) to decarbonise the industry.

Electrification of the RTO is based on a change in the thermal energy source, using electrical resistors instead of fossil fuel burners. The sustainability of the machinery is enhanced, in turn, by better regulation and control of the system by a digital twin of the process that reproduces its behaviour virtually.

  • Project funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
  • Program supporting Innovative Business Groups (AEI)
  • Duración: 2021-2022

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AID FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INDUSTRY (IDIS-REACT)
  • Project funded by the Department of Industry, Competitiveness and Business Development (Government of Aragon)
  • Duración: 2021-2022

HIGH EFFICIENCY RECOVERY SYSTEMS (RAF) - DIGITAL TWIN: FROM INDUSTRY TO THE CLOUD

Aiming to digitalize KALFRISA's products, the project comprises the development of a digital twin of a high temperature radiation recovery system to achieve optimal designs of this type of unit for critical process conditions, anticipation of equipment performance in new process conditions and integration of its operability into digitized industries with high energy consumption.

  • Project managed by the CDTI and funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
  • Program supporting Innovative Business Groups (AEI)
  • Duration: 2020-2021

ACTIVA INDUSTRY 4.0

The purpose of the project is to diagnose the current situation of KALFRISA in relation to digital technologies and industry 4.0, as well as to develop a transformation plan that identifies the technologies of greatest interest and the digital enablers necessary to pursue them (including a roadmap for their implementation).

  • Project managed by the EOI and funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
  • ACTIVA Industry 4.0 Program
  • Duration: 2020-2021

HIGH-TEMPERATURE RADIATION RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY FOR MELTING FURNACES

The goal of the project is to increase the performance of high-temperature radiation recovery systems that allow combustion air to be preheated above the temperatures reached in the state-of-the-art, through improvements in design, heat transfer, fluid dynamics and materials.

Exceeding these critical temperatures results in greater fuel savings in your furnaces, savings in operating costs and a significant reduction in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

  • Project managed by the CDTI and funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
  • Duration: 2017-2019

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED-MODULAR SYSTEM FOR DRYING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS BIOMASS

The purpose of the project is to develop a new robust, flexible and sustainable dryer with the capacity to process different agri-food products, including tobacco leaves, rice, saffron and garlic, among others, based on the generation of heat using biomass, particularly using biomass waste associated with these products or premises other than those used in the case studies in the project.

  • Project managed by the CDTI and funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
  • Duration: 2017-2019