Baku, Azerbaijan · CleanTech infrastructure
Transforming industrial and urban waste heat into low-carbon energy
AstemLab deploys AI-governed thermodynamic heat recovery systems to pre-heat refinery boilers and power zero-emission district heating networks.
541,908kW
Recoverable heat, Baku Metro
3.8+
Multiplier efficiency
474.7kt
CO₂ avoided annually
2.15M
Daily passengers measured
Solutions
The industrial and urban heat paradox
Refineries and petrochemical plants discharge low-grade heat continuously through cooling towers and process effluent. Metro tunnels add dense passenger heat and stay warm year-round. All of it is vented to the atmosphere — while boilers a few hundred metres away burn natural gas to heat feedwater.
Vented to the atmosphere
722,544 kW
18–30 °C · 27 select a station
Bought and burned as gas
82
The same loop cools the tunnels — relief for the 82 energy-intensive ventilators currently in service.
Impact
Measured, not estimated
27 Baku Metro stations and 98 exits surveyed. Every figure on this site is reproducible from that dataset and four openly published constants.
Open the heat map- 27
- Select a station
- 98
- Mapped exits
- 2,373,557
- Annual energy recovered (MWh)
- 237,356
- Equivalent homes heated
Feasibility
Pilot feasibility
A standardised module so feasibility can be quoted quickly and deployments scale by unit count rather than bespoke engineering.
1.8MW
Thermal capacity
11.9GWh
Annual energy saved
476,000AZN
Annual cost savings
4.9–10years
Payback period