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JOA Air Solutions Launches Steam-Producing Heat Pump System for Industrial Drying at Philip Morris International's Bologna facility
A state of the art heat recovery system coupled with a pioneering 139 °C steam producing heat pump has been commissioned by Philip Morris International (PMI) at their site in Bologna. The system is provided by Dutch System Integrator JOA Air Solutions using a high-temperature heat pump from German start-up, SPH. The pilot unit has shown capability to reduce the gas consumption for the main dryer by 40-50% in the last months of operation, the system also recovered 20-30% of water from the exhaust
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