The future of industrial decarbonisation
Sustainable heat for industrial processes
Mechapres is a high-temperature heat pump coupled with thermal storage. Our solution takes advantage of intermittent solar and waste heat to produce steam for industrial applications.
How does it work?
Modular and highly efficient
Mechapres patented design consists of a high-temperature heat pump integrated with two thermal storage buffers.
The unique proprietary compressor achieve high-efficiency while keeping the manufacturing cost low.
The unique proprietary compressor achieve high-efficiency while keeping the manufacturing cost low.
The embedded storage enables Mechapres to take advantage of intermittent solar or waste heat, and off-peak electricity.
Fossil-free steam production
Mechapres uses low-temperature solar and/or waste heat to produce high-temperature heat.
Off-set intermittent solar or waste heat
When solar and waste heat are not available, electricity prices are high, or power cuts occur, the thermal storage is discharged keeping heat supply uninterrupted.
Store off-peak electricity
During off-peak time, or when there is excess on-site electricity generation, Mechapres can store electricity in its thermal storage.
Reduce carbon and costs with piece of mind
The benefits for industrial plants
Guaranteed savings from day 1
Mechapres’s high performance can reduce OPEX for steam generation by up to 30%.
Our financing model provides insurance on technical risks, covers the upfront costs and includes maintenance. This means that end users can start saving money from day 1.
Utilising Untapped Resources
Thanks to integrated energy storage, Mechapres can recover heat wasted from intermittent thermal processes, an untapped resource today. The storage also enables to store intermittent renewable energy.
Non-intrusive to the exiting operations
The compact design (20ft container) and low safety requirements, make Mechapres extremely easy to integrate into any production line.
Mechapres does not require any modification to the existing heat/steam distribution system. Thus, it can directly replace steam boilers without any additional equipment or modification to the plants' layout.
Use case - Drying of clay minerals
Testing in industrial environment – TRL5 (Summer 24)
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About us
Drawing from sector experience: Meet our team
Managing team
Anastasios Vasilopoulos (CEng, MEng)
Managing Director
He brings 15+ years of expertise in re-planning and re-engineering production process lines for industrial equipment. His successful track record includes optimizing thermal processes and implementing solutions for waste-to-energy generation, energy monitoring, heat pumps & refrigeration, mechanical vapour recompression, and high-density thermal storage.
Fabio Giunta (MEng, MSc)
Partnerships & Growth
Fabio is an energy engineer with 5+ years of experience. Fabio has spent the last 4 years helping energy-related early-stage start-ups to launch new products. He has previous experience as an R&D engineer for commercial and industrial heat pumps coupled with geothermal storage and district heating networks.
Partners & advisors
Vasilis Hartzoulakis (Phd)
Advisor – Product Strategy
Vasilis is a senior product strategist and ex-founder. Background in Chemical Engineering. Vasilis designed and delivered several SaaS B2B products for pharmaceutical and FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods).
Marianna Digka (BSc-Hons)
Advisor – Non-dilutive funding
Marianna is an applied economist with 12+ years of experience as a business growth and innovation consultant, having worked with more than 100 industrial customers, developing £30m+ business transformation programmes. Marianna is a Certified Project Manager and professional bid writer who has led numerous publicly funded projects(UK and EU).
Prof. Yulong Ding
Advisor – Thermal Storage
Professor Yulong Ding is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and director of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of >300MW / >1.2GWh so far.
Spilios Theodoratos
Advisor – Data Architecture
Experienced Business Intelligence Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Business Process, Analytical Skills, Requirements Analysis, Entrepreneurship, and Databases. Strong information technology professional graduated from Stanford University, Venture Lab. Qlik Luminary Class 2014.
Sarah Melaney
Advisor – Legal and IP
A corporate lawyer with experience of both public and private company M&A, equity capital markets and venture capital investment work. Lead associate on the acquisition of Formula 1 by Liberty Media Corporation. Sector specialism: Technology and , in particular, life sciences and cleantech.