Dinak leads a job to reduce emissions in domestic boilers

Dinak develops a filter

The main objective of the work started at 2016 is to identify, design, model and develop a prototype of optimal filtration and particle retention, based on electrostatic technology (ESP), electrostatic precipitators for application in domestic boilers.

At the beginning of March there was a meeting of the SIREP research project, led by Dinak, a company exhibiting expobiomasa 2019, in which the Energy Technologies Group of the University of Vigo also participates.

"The system of electrostatic filters for the retention of particles is not something new in the market, in fact, it is a known technology and with a high industrial diffusion, but that, to date, it is not used in installations of small power due to economic problems ", explains David Patiño, researcher of the GTE group. "The challenge of this work was to try to scale these equipment to small installations with an economy of scale, that is to say, at a low cost, both developing the mechanical part as the electrical one, related to the high voltage source".

The project had a budget of around 700.000 euros and already has a pilot device in operation that can be implemented in commercial conversion equipment, without the need to modify the design of the boiler, and the idea is that in a period of about two or three years is already operational in the market.
 

Further information:

https://www.uvigo.gal/es/universidad/comunicacion/duvi/universidade-participa-nun-proxecto-que-consegue-reducir-impacto-ambiental-caldeiras-domesticas