Digital Engineering for Industrial Decarbonisation and Clean Energy Integration

Potential Contribution of NablaDot to CETP Modules CM2026-09, CM2026-05, CM2026-07 and CM2026-04

NablaDot can contribute to CETP projects focused on the development, integration, scale-up and demonstration of low-carbon industrial and energy technologies. Its expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multiphysics simulation, physics-based digital twins, reduced-order modelling, artificial intelligence and optimisation is relevant to integrated industrial energy systems, hydrogen and renewable fuels, advanced heating and cooling, and industrial carbon management.

NablaDot develops high-fidelity models of processes and equipment involving fluid dynamics, combustion, heat and mass transfer, multiphase flows and chemical reactions. These models can be applied to furnaces, burners, reactors, heat exchangers, heat-recovery systems, hydrogen infrastructure, thermal storage and carbon-capture equipment, supporting design, virtual testing, performance optimisation and scale-up from pilot plants to industrial demonstrators.

For industrial decarbonisation, NablaDot can assess the combined integration of process electrification, hydrogen and renewable fuels, waste-heat recovery, thermal storage and carbon capture. Alternative configurations and operating strategies can be compared in terms of energy consumption, production requirements, emissions, flexibility and economic performance. Applications include hydrogen combustion, NOx reduction, high-temperature heat pumps, waste-heat valorisation and reduction of carbon-capture energy penalties.

NablaDot can also support component design and scale-up through CFD modelling of combustion and hydrogen-mixing systems, thermal optimisation of heat exchangers and storage technologies, and heat- and mass-transfer analysis of carbon-capture and utilisation equipment. These activities help identify performance limitations, reduce technical risks and minimise physical prototyping.

High-fidelity models can be combined with experimental and operational data to develop reduced-order models and digital twins. Integrated with sensors, IoT, SCADA and energy-management platforms, these tools enable monitoring, prediction, fault detection, optimisation and advanced control. They can also support flexible industrial operation according to renewable-energy availability, energy prices, production demand and carbon constraints.

Within collaborative projects, NablaDot can contribute throughout the technology-development cycle, from equipment modelling and design to pilot validation, industrial integration, demonstration and replication. Its cross-cutting contribution covers:

• CM2026-09: decarbonisation, integration and flexible operation of industrial energy systems.

• CM2026-05: optimisation of hydrogen and renewable-fuel production, transport and end use.

• CM2026-07: advanced heating, cooling, heat-recovery and thermal-storage solutions.

• CM2026-04: scale-up and industrial integration of carbon-capture and utilisation technologies.

This combination of engineering and digital capabilities can accelerate technology maturation, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and facilitate the industrial deployment of competitive clean-energy solutions.