SWEP sustainability report 2019

SWEP products in action

Sustainability supporting examples

Cleaner cities, clearer skies

We believe in getting more from less, and our products are helping industries throughout the world to achieve this. Many industries and processes struggle to utilize all the energy they access or produce, but with our efficient heat exchangers even low heat sources can be used to produce useful energy electricity. The Organic Rankine Cycle is a sustainable technology that makes it economically feasible to recover waste heat from low-temperature sources (such as geothermal, solar and industrial waste heat), and turn it into electricity. As the technology has developed, we have been able to install our heat exchangers in sustainable projects all over the world like in Spain... SWEP components play a crucial role in the microgeneration and co-microgeneration modules created by Spanish company Rank. The SWEP brazed plate heat exchangers installed in Rank‘s machines helps generate electricity and usable heat from a number of sources, including solar thermal energy and waste heat from industrial processes. These innovations are making renewable energy feasible in locations across Europe, and we are delighted to be able to contribute. Microgeneration from Spain

SWEP heat exchangers in action China’s coal-to-electricity project has been ongoing since 2017, and will result in a reduction of millions of tons of emissions. The shift away from domestic coal burning is reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter – significantly improving the lives of residents – while the overall reduction in carbon emissions promotes sustainability in a more global context. As a participant of the "coal to electricity" project, SWEP has produced about 100,000 brazed plate heat exchangers that are now being used in various ways with positive results. In 2019, we visited a number of suburbs around Beijing to find out more about the impact of the project. In Yanqing District, we were able to see our products in a domestic setting. The villagers’ domestic heating is now provided by heat-pumps, with our brazed plate heat exchangers a central component. We also saw our heat exchangers in action in a clinical setting. In Tongzhou district, we talked to Doctor Ma, who told us how the village clinic’s new heating system is more effective and easier to use than coal- burning stoves. He also described to us how the changes have improved life in his village: “In the old days, coal ash would cause people to choke and burning coal could be smelled before you even entered the village. This is good for the environment as well as for people's lives.”

SWEP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2019

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