Global Waste Heat Recovery Market 2026-2030

Description

The global waste heat recovery market is forecasted to grow by USD 27436.6 mn during 2025-2030, accelerating at a CAGR of 7.5% during the forecast period. The report on the global waste heat recovery market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors.

The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, the latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The market is driven by intensifying regulatory frameworks and carbon decarbonization mandates, rising cost of primary industrial energy and volatile fuel markets, proliferation of data center infrastructure and modern district heating integration.

The study was conducted using an objective combination of primary and secondary information including inputs from key participants in the industry. The report contains a comprehensive market size data, segment with regional analysis and vendor landscape in addition to an analysis of the key companies. Reports have historic and forecast data.

Market Scope
Base Year	2025
End Year	2030
Series Year	2026-2030
Growth Momentum	Accelerate
YOY 2026	7%
CAGR	7.5%
Incremental Value	$27436.6 mn

Technavio's global waste heat recovery market is segmented as below:

By End-User

Chemical
Petroleum refining
Paper
Commercial and institutional
Others

By Technique

Heat exchangers
Recuperators
Heat wheels
Regenerators
Others

By Application

Steam and electricity generation
Preheating
Others

Geography

North America
- US
- Canada
- Mexico
Europe
- Germany
- UK
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- The Netherlands
APAC
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Australia
- Indonesia
Middle East and Africa
- UAE
- South Africa
- Turkey
South America
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
Rest of World (ROW)

This study identifies the integration of megawatt-scale server thermal exhaust into municipal district energy networks as one of the prime reasons driving the global waste heat recovery market growth during the next few years. Also, deployment of thermal energy storage systems and flexible electro-thermal hybrids and advanced organic rankine cycle technology in non-traditional moderate-temperature environments will lead to sizable demand in the market.

The report on the global waste heat recovery market covers the following areas:

Global waste heat recovery market sizing
Global waste heat recovery market forecast
Global waste heat recovery market industry analysis

The robust vendor analysis is designed to help clients improve their market position, and in line with this, this report provides a detailed analysis of several leading global waste heat recovery market vendors that include ABB Ltd., Alfa Laval AB, Babcock and Wilcox, Danfoss AS, Echogen power system Inc, ElectraTherm Inc, ENOGIA SA, Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd., GE Vernova Inc., John Wood Group PLC, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Kelvion Holding GmbH, Ormat Technologies Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens Energy AG, The Cleaver Brooks Co. Inc., Thermax Ltd., Turboden SpA, Veolia Environment SA. Also, the global waste heat recovery market analysis report includes information on upcoming trends and challenges that will influence market growth. This is to help companies strategize and leverage all forthcoming growth opportunities.

The publisher presents a detailed picture of the market by the way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources by an analysis of key parameters such as profit, pricing, competition, and promotions. It presents various market facets by identifying the key industry influencers. The data presented is comprehensive, reliable, and a result of extensive primary and secondary research. The market research reports provide a complete competitive landscape and an in-depth vendor selection methodology and analysis using qualitative and quantitative research to forecast accurate market growth.

Product Code: IRTNTR43512

1 Executive Summary

1.1 Market overview
- Executive Summary - Chart on Market Overview
- Executive Summary - Data Table on Market Overview
- Executive Summary - Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Executive Summary - Chart on Market by Geography
- Executive Summary - Chart on Market Segmentation by End-user
- Executive Summary - Chart on Market Segmentation by Technique
- Executive Summary - Chart on Market Segmentation by Application
- Executive Summary - Chart on Incremental Growth
- Executive Summary - Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Executive Summary - Chart on Company Market Positioning

2 Technavio Analysis

2.1 Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
- Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
2.2 Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
2.3 Factors of disruption
2.4 Impact of drivers and challenges

3 Market Landscape

3.1 Market ecosystem
3.2 Market characteristics
3.3 Value chain analysis

4 Market Sizing

4.1 Market definition
4.2 Market segment analysis
- Market segments
4.3 Market size 2025
4.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2025-2030

5 Historic Market Size

5.1 Global Waste Heat Recovery Market 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - Data Table on Global Waste Heat Recovery Market 2020 - 2024 ($ million)
5.2 End-user segment analysis 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - End-user Segment 2020 - 2024 ($ million)
5.3 Technique segment analysis 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - Technique Segment 2020 - 2024 ($ million)
5.4 Application segment analysis 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - Application Segment 2020 - 2024 ($ million)
5.5 Geography segment analysis 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - Geography Segment 2020 - 2024 ($ million)
5.6 Country segment analysis 2020 - 2024
- Historic Market Size - Country Segment 2020 - 2024 ($ million)

6 Qualitative Analysis

6.1 Impact of AI on Global Waste Heat Recovery Market
6.2 Impact of geopolitical conflicts on Global Waste Heat Recovery Market

7 Five Forces Analysis

7.1 Five forces summary
- Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2025 and 2030
7.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Bargaining power of buyers - Impact of key factors 2025 and 2030
7.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Bargaining power of suppliers - Impact of key factors in 2025 and 2030
7.4 Threat of new entrants
- Threat of new entrants - Impact of key factors in 2025 and 2030
7.5 Threat of substitutes
- Threat of substitutes - Impact of key factors in 2025 and 2030
7.6 Threat of rivalry
- Threat of rivalry - Impact of key factors in 2025 and 2030
7.7 Market condition

8 Market Segmentation by End-user

8.1 Market segments
8.2 Comparison by End-user
8.3 Chemical - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
8.4 Petroleum refining - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
8.5 Paper - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
8.6 Commercial and institutional - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
8.7 Others - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
8.8 Market opportunity by End-user
- Market opportunity by End-user ($ million)

9 Market Segmentation by Technique

9.1 Market segments
9.2 Comparison by Technique
9.3 Heat exchangers - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
9.4 Recuperators - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
9.5 Heat wheels - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
9.6 Regenerators - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
9.7 Others - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
9.8 Market opportunity by Technique
- Market opportunity by Technique ($ million)

10 Market Segmentation by Application

10.1 Market segments
10.2 Comparison by Application
10.3 Steam and electricity generation - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
10.4 Preheating - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
10.5 Others - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
10.6 Market opportunity by Application
- Market opportunity by Application ($ million)

11 Customer Landscape

11.1 Customer landscape overview
- Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria

12 Geographic Landscape

12.1 Geographic segmentation
12.2 Geographic comparison
12.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.3.1 US - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.3.2 Canada - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.3.3 Mexico - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
12.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.1 Germany - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.2 UK - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.3 France - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.4 Italy - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.5 Spain - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.4.6 The Netherlands - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
12.5 APAC - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.1 China - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.2 India - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.3 Japan - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.4 South Korea - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.5 Australia - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.5.6 Indonesia - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
12.6 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.6.1 Saudi Arabia - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.6.2 UAE - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.6.3 South Africa - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.6.4 Turkey - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.6.5 Israel - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
12.7 South America - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.7.1 Brazil - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.7.2 Argentina - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
- 12.7.3 Chile - Market size and forecast 2025-2030
12.8 Market opportunity by geography
- Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
- Data Tables on Market opportunity by geography ($ million)

13 Drivers, Challenges, and Opportunity

13.1 Market drivers
- Intensifying regulatory frameworks and carbon decarbonization mandates
- Rising cost of primary industrial energy and volatile fuel markets
- Proliferation of data center infrastructure and modern district heating integration
13.2 Market challenges
- High capital expenditures and extended return on investment cycles
- Technical mismatch and temporal thermal fluctuations
- Regulatory definition inconsistencies and infrastructure bottlenecks
13.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Impact of drivers and challenges in 2025 and 2030
13.4 Market opportunities
- Integration of megawatt-scale server thermal exhaust into municipal district energy networks
- Deployment of thermal energy storage systems and flexible electro-thermal hybrids
- Advanced organic rankine cycle technology in non-traditional moderate-temperature environments

14 Competitive Landscape

14.1 Overview
14.2 Competitive Landscape
- Overview on criticality of inputs and factors of differentiation
14.3 Landscape disruption
- Overview on factors of disruption
14.4 Industry risks
- Impact of key risks on business

15 Competitive Analysis

15.1 Companies profiled
- Companies covered
15.2 Company ranking index
- Company ranking index
15.3 Market positioning of companies
- Matrix on companies position and classification
15.4 ABB Ltd.
- ABB Ltd. - Overview
- ABB Ltd. - Business segments
- ABB Ltd. - Key news
- ABB Ltd. - Key offerings
- ABB Ltd. - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.5 Alfa Laval AB
- Alfa Laval AB - Overview
- Alfa Laval AB - Business segments
- Alfa Laval AB - Key offerings
- Alfa Laval AB - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.6 Babcock and Wilcox
- Babcock and Wilcox - Overview
- Babcock and Wilcox - Business segments
- Babcock and Wilcox - Key offerings
- Babcock and Wilcox - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.7 Danfoss AS
- Danfoss AS - Overview
- Danfoss AS - Product / Service
- Danfoss AS - Key offerings
- SWOT
15.8 Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd.
- Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd. - Overview
- Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd. - Key offerings
- SWOT
15.9 GE Vernova Inc.
- GE Vernova Inc. - Overview
- GE Vernova Inc. - Business segments
- GE Vernova Inc. - Key offerings
- GE Vernova Inc. - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.10 John Wood Group PLC
- John Wood Group PLC - Overview
- John Wood Group PLC - Business segments
- John Wood Group PLC - Key offerings
- John Wood Group PLC - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.11 Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. - Overview
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. - Business segments
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. - Key news
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. - Key offerings
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.12 Kelvion Holding GmbH
- Kelvion Holding GmbH - Overview
- Kelvion Holding GmbH - Product / Service
- Kelvion Holding GmbH - Key offerings
- SWOT
15.13 Ormat Technologies Inc.
- Ormat Technologies Inc. - Overview
- Ormat Technologies Inc. - Business segments
- Ormat Technologies Inc. - Key offerings
- Ormat Technologies Inc. - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.14 Robert Bosch GmbH
- Robert Bosch GmbH - Overview
- Robert Bosch GmbH - Product / Service
- Robert Bosch GmbH - Key offerings
- SWOT
15.15 Siemens Energy AG
- Siemens Energy AG - Overview
- Siemens Energy AG - Business segments
- Siemens Energy AG - Key news
- Siemens Energy AG - Key offerings
- Siemens Energy AG - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.16 Thermax Ltd.
- Thermax Ltd. - Overview
- Thermax Ltd. - Business segments
- Thermax Ltd. - Key offerings
- Thermax Ltd. - Segment focus
- SWOT
15.17 Turboden SpA
- Turboden SpA - Overview
- Turboden SpA - Product / Service
- Turboden SpA - Key offerings
- SWOT
15.18 Veolia Environment SA
- Veolia Environment SA - Overview
- Veolia Environment SA - Business segments
- Veolia Environment SA - Key news
- Veolia Environment SA - Key offerings
- Veolia Environment SA - Segment focus
- SWOT

16 Appendix

16.1 Scope of the report
- Market definition
- Objectives
- Notes and caveats
16.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Inclusions checklist
- Exclusions checklist
16.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Currency conversion rates for US$
16.4 Research methodology
- Research methodology
16.5 Data procurement
- Information sources
16.6 Data validation
- Data validation
16.7 Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Validation techniques employed for market sizing
16.8 Data synthesis
- Data synthesis
16.9 360 degree market analysis
- 360 degree market analysis
16.10 List of abbreviations
- List of abbreviations