DISTILLERY

Your Path to Decarbonization powered by HEATEN’s High-Temperature Heat Pumps

Decarbonize your processes with our highly efficient and flexible technology!

Whiskey production is highly heat-intensive. From mashing and wort heating to distillation, cleaning and utilities, distilleries depend on stable thermal energy to protect process quality and production reliability. Today, much of this heat is still supplied by fossil-fueled boilers, exposing producers to volatile fuel prices, rising carbon costs and increasing sustainability expectations.
HEATEN high-temperature heat pumps recover mill heat and deliver useful process heat up to 200°C - while also providing industrial cooling where needed. This dual capability reduces energy use, Scope 1 emissions, and dependency on water-intensive cooling towers.

Thermal energy can be up to ~60% of production costs, while conventional boiler systems often run ~70 - 85% efficiency and dump valuable heat through exhaust and condensate. High-temperature heat pumps can reach COPs (coefficients of performance) ~2 - 7 in relevant lifts - turning waste heat into stable, electrified process heat and reducing primary energy use significantly.

Integrate HEATEN HeatBoosters into Your Process

• Heat sink: 90–200°C (water or steam)
• Heat source: 10–150°C (water or steam)
• Part-load performance: down to ~20% load
• Modular scale: 1–50+ MW_th via parallel/cascaded installations
• Impact highlights: up to 85% energy savings, up to 12,000 t CO₂ reduction/year, up to 40,000 m³ potential water savings/year

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Heating and Cooling – One Integrated System

Distilleries often need both reliable heat and stable cooling. HEATEN’s HeatBooster can recover heat that would otherwise be discharged through wastewater, exhaust air or cooling systems, while providing mechanical cooling where needed.

This dual function reduces wasted energy, lowers water dependency and supports stable process conditions in one electrified system.

Stepwise Integration with Minimal Production Disruption

HeatBooster can be installed alongside existing steam systems, allowing production to continue during integration. After validation, steam load is shifted gradually - reducing operational risk. Its modular design enables projects to start with a MW-scale pilot and expand step by step toward larger capacities, avoiding a high-risk “big bang” transition.

Reduce Scope 1 emissions from steam — without rebuilding your mill

For many distilleries fossil boilers remain a major source of direct emissions. HEATEN high-temperature heat pumps help replace fossil steam and hot-water generation by recovering available heat and upgrading it to process temperatures.

The result: lower fossil fuel demand, lower Scope 1 emissions and a practical route to decarbonization aligned with customer, brand and regulatory expectations.

Mashing
60–75 °C

Supply controlled hot water to activate enzymes and convert starches into fermentable sugars.

Wort heating and transfer
70–95 °C

Provide steady thermal energy for heating the sugary liquid before fermentation.

Distillation support
>100 °C heat supply

Deliver reliable high-temperature heat to support reboilers, pot stills or steam/hot-water networks used in distillation.

Cleaning-in-place
60–85 °C

Cover daily hot-water demand for cleaning mash tuns, stills, pipework and utilities.

Condensation and cooling

Recover low-grade heat from vapour condensation and cooling water systems, then upgrade it for reuse elsewhere in the distillery.

Auxiliary services

Provide hot water for space heating, utilities and ancillary thermal demand.

Recover available heat from cooling and condensation
Temperature lift for whiskey production
Flexible operation for batch processes

Whiskey production sometimes requires batch processes and changing demand. HeatBooster is designed for flexible operation, fast load changes and efficient part-load performance. This matters for distilleries because heat demand is not always flat; distillation and cleaning can create changing loads. Flexible operation allows the system to increase output when electricity is cheaper and reduce load when prices are high.
Stepwise decarbonization without a big-bang switchover
Turn electricity price volatility into an advantage

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Unused waste heat is easy to find. Recovering that energy with our industrial heat pump can transform it into valuable process heat.

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Heating and Cooling – One Integrated System

Stepwise Integration with Minimal Production Disruption

Reduce Scope 1 emissions from steam — without rebuilding your mill

REDEFINING WASTE HEAT