High-temperature heat pump
At this year’s Wirtschaftsnacht Rheinland, SPH Sustainable Process Heat GmbH (Overath, Germany; www.spheat.de) won the award in the “Start-up” category. The company produces an innovative and extremely efficient high-temperature heat pump for the industry — the ThermBooster. The core of the heat pump is a special piston compressor. In combination with environmentally friendly refrigerants and innovative process technology, the ThermBooster is one of the first industrial heat pumps in the world that can generate steam at temperatures of up to 165°C. The company is working to increase this to 200°C in the future.
Since being founded by the managing directors Andreas Mück and Tim Hamacher in 2020, the company has filed three patents and is now working on projects worldwide.