Project simulation tool

Assess, in just a few minutes, the energy performance, achievable savings, and return on investment of your evaporation or concentration facility.

With energy costs rising and industry under growing pressure to decarbonize, waste heat recovery is one of the fastest and most cost-effective levers to cut energy consumption.
FE by France Evaporation provides an online project simulation tool designed to deliver a rapid assessment of your evaporation or concentration project. Based on your operating conditions, it estimates key performance indicators including energy efficiency, potential savings, waste heat recovery potential, return on investment, and annual CO₂ emissions reduction.

The simulator helps quantify these opportunities by comparing your current configuration with electrification scenarios based on Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) or MVR combined with a High-Temperature Heat Pump (HTHP); delivering a reliable first-level assessment to support investment prioritization and strategic decision-making.

Free to access, it is a concrete first step ahead of the detailed study carried out by our engineers.

What does the simulator calculate?

Based on the characteristics of your installation, the simulator provides an initial quantitative assessment of your project:

  • Energy performance: coefficient of performance (COP) and process energy consumption;
  • Economic benefits: achievable energy savings and estimated payback period (ROI);
  • Carbon impact: annual CO₂ emissions avoided through process electrification using MVR + high-temperature heat pump hybrid system.

How does the simulator work?

The simulator matches a heat source (left) to a heat demand (right) via an MVR (mechanical vapour recompression) system, or MVR combined with a heat pump (MVR + HTHP hybrid system).

Three sections need to be filled in:

Utility stream type

The nature of the source to be recovered: steam, humid air, steam and air, or hot water. Each selection displays the relevant fields (flow rate, humidity, pressure, temperature, etc.).

Input: heat Source

The available energy stream on your site, such as steam, humid air, steam-air mixtures, or hot liquid streams. This is the waste heat resource that feeds the system.

Output: heat sink

Your process heat demand, typically defined by a required steam pressure (barg) and corresponding saturation temperature. The heat sink represents the final energy use, such as process heating, utilities, or a steam network.

> A quantified basis for comparing your energy scenarios and guiding your project.

  • Steam: saturated or superheated water vapor. When no product carry-over is present (droplets, particles, entrained compounds), the stream is considered “clean”.
  • Humid air: stream of warm, moisture-laden air.
  • Steam and air: saturated steam stream containing non-condensable gases.
  • Hot water: circulating hot-water loop used as a thermal energy source

This step converts the technical result into an economic order of magnitude (OPEX). You may enter:

  • your plant’s electricity cost (€/MWh);
  • the annual operating hours of your steam demand (h/year);
  • the current internal cost per ton of steam produced (€/t), if you already track an internal “steam” cost;
  • the cost of gas (€/MWh GCV), if your reference is a gas-fired boiler.

If you don’t have this data on hand, you can skip this step: the simulator remains fully usable for a technical pre-study.

  • Heat source (input): what you recover (the resource).
  • Heat sink (output): what you need (the end use).
  • Barg: gauge pressure (relative to atmospheric pressure).
  • Saturation temperature: the boiling/condensation temperature associated with a given pressure (saturated steam).
► Launch the Simulator

Making the most of your simulation results

With your results in hand, our engineers refine the study: validating assumptions, sizing the solution (MVR – HTHP, energy recovery), detailed cost estimation, and support in securing financing (grants, third-party investment).

> Turn your simulation into a profitable, fundable project: take the next step with our experts.

The difference FE

ACTIONABLE RESULTS

Calculations based on your actual process data rather than standardized assumptions.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

A fast comparison of multiple energy scenarios to identify the most relevant solutions.

FIELD-PROVEN EXPERTISE

Every assessment is backed by decades of experience in energy efficiency, process electrification, and waste heat recovery.

TURNKEY PROJECT

A seamless transition from preliminary evaluation to detailed engineering, including validation, process design, sizing, and financing support.