Sentences with phrase «converts waste heat»

In a vehicle, the device could be placed directly in the exhaust system with hot air going in one end and out the other all while it converts the waste heat into electricity that is fed back into the vehicle, bumping up the mileage by 5 percent.

With colleagues, Baughman has developed a «thermocell» constructed from a carbon nanotube - based material that converts waste heat into electricity.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

«Converting waste heat into electric power, for example, using vehicle exhaust, is a near - term «green» application of such materials.»

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

«Thermally regenerative batteries are a carbon - neutral way to store and convert waste heat into electricity with potentially lower cost than solid - state devices.»

And his lab last summer published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences establishing tin telluride with the addition of the chemical element indium as a material capable of converting waste heat to electricity.

This effect allows to convert waste heat into spin currents and thereby to transport energy as well as information in magnetic, electrically insulating materials.

The thermal electric generator then converts the wasted heat into useful electrical energy to help power auxiliary systems.

Perhaps instead of fighting the Swedes, Bondam should join them, and speak to those Swedish researchers building know - how on converting waste heat to usable heating, chilling power, and electricity.

Not exact matches

«We break down the waste using heat and convert it into a gas that is as clean as natural gas.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

The green - minded generator uses a process that saves power by converting heat that would normally be wasted into steam, which can then be used to cool air during the summer months and heat water in the winter.

But thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electricity and vice versa, can harness that wasted heat, and possibly provide the green tech energy efficiency that's needed for a sustainable future.

Thermoelectric materials, which convert a temperature difference across their surface into a current, offer yet another way to generate energy from waste heat.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Another roadblock hindering solar cells is that much of the light they collect is wasted as heat and not converted to electricity.

He explained that the efficiency of a photovoltaic device is governed by a simple competition: light energy is either converted into waste heat or useful electronic power.

The microbes convert the waste into methane, which can be used to produce commercial amounts of electricity and heat.

Many farmshave already developed methods of converting the billions of tons of animal waste produced each year intomethane for electrical and heat energy; beginning in March, 1,200 households inCalifornia will be powered by cow manure.

«For example, we know that some metallic glasses have demonstrated enormous potential for use in electric motors, reducing waste heat and converting more power from electromagnetic fields into electricity.»

The resulting composite was able to convert heat which would otherwise be lost as waste into an electric current over a broad temperature range, going down to room temperature.

The potential for capturing heat — from power plants, industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently wasted to be used to generate power.

This greater metabolic rate converts a greater proportion of «Total Energy Out» into «Wasted Heat» and is especially critical for surviving cold temperatures.

Because of the compression limitation required to prevent «engine knock», a typical gasoline engine can only deliver about 25 % efficiency — only 25 % of the BTU's in a gallon of gasoline are converted to mechanical energy that turns the wheels of the car, the other 75 % is lost in waste heat.

This contrasts with conventional braking systems, where the excess kinetic energy is converted to unwanted and wasted heat by friction in the brakes, or with dynamic brakes, where energy is recovered by using electric motors as generators but is immediately dissipated as heat in resistors.

Modern HEVs make use of efficiency - improving technologies such as regenerative braking, which converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into electric energy to charge the battery, rather than wasting it as heat energy as conventional brakes do.

When the Insight is coasting or its brakes are applied, and the vehicle is in gear, its electric - assist motor becomes a generator, converting forward momentum into electrical energy, instead of wasting it as heat during conventional braking (vented front disc / rear drum brakes are still the main means of braking).

BMW ActiveHybrid technology uses energy that would be normally converted into heat through the brakes, and therefore wasted in conventional cars.

It features an innovative Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) powered by Detroit that converts the engine's otherwise wasted heat into usable eneHeat Recovery (WHR) powered by Detroit that converts the engine's otherwise wasted heat into usable eneheat into usable energy.

This converts kinetic energy otherwise wasted as heat in the brake system into electric power saved for subsequent use.

Power plants that convert heat into steam include coal fired, biomass fired, and waste ‐ to ‐ energy plants.

Scullin estimates that if even just 5 percent of that waste heat was converted into electricity at the cost of 10 cents per kWh, that's a $ 1 trillion a year industry.

By doing so, the city could provide the nation's greatest test case for the economics of converting municipal solid waste to electricity, heat, reclaimed metals and the rest could be spun into rock wool to provide cheap insulation material.

New fuel cell design can convert any biomass into electricity with a little help from sunlight or waste heat.

Another pathway for converting gas to electricity is fuel cells, which produce electricity with no byproducts except distilled water and a little bit of waste heat.

A further increase in the energy supply becomes excess energy and it converted to heat and wasted.

It can no longer return itself to the previous orderly motions before the molecules began to collide with each other and it is the work done by the force of gravity as it collects up the molecules that is getting «wasted» in the form of heat, and can only partially be converted back to work, and is why the Temperature is increasing.

The fast - neutron reaction first converts fertile material — including nuclear waste, uranium, plutonium and thorium — to fissile material which then splits under neutron bombardment to produce heat and lighter elements.

The city creatively generates electricity using everything from food scraps to manure to used cooking oil, converting waste into biogas, and then efficiently pumping heat all over the city from large central furnaces.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Developing cutting - edge systems to convert waste streams generated in the district to provide energy to heat, cool and power facilities, and compost to increase food production yields.

Organic waste that can be converted to usable forms of energy such as heat or electricity, or crops grown specifically for that purpose.

Writing in Environmental Research Letters, author Mary S. Booth disputes assertions that burning biomassOrganic waste that can be converted to usable forms of energy such as heat or electricity, or crops grown specifically for that purpose.

Traditional photovoltaic (PV) systems convert approximately 16 % of the sun's energy into usable electricity, discarding the remaining energy as waste, mostly in the form of heat.

They're clearly relying on people's ignorance of the laws of thermodynamics, which mean that whenever heat is converted to another form of energy a large amount will always be wasted.

If those wavelengths are truly captured energy, they are simply converted into matter: new cells, new molecules, etc. with no waste heat.

Well Tim, what you say is of course true; but those energy exit processes you mention all take place because that incoming solar spectrum energy, is in fact converted to waste «heat» in the deep ocean; which of course was my point.