However, a new model of heat exchanger
for waste heat recovery for residential buildings promises to be the first practical version for home shower use, recovering up to 45 % of the waste heat from shower drains, and offering a good return on investment.
Italian company EXERGY has secured a contract
for waste heat recovery from gas turbines in Thailand.
Flexible thermoelectric devices are especially attractive
for waste heat recovery along contoured surfaces and for energy harvesting applications to power sensors, biomedical devices and wearable electronics — an area experiencing exponential growth.
Not exact matches
Tunable thermal properties make these structures good candidates
for integrated
heat management units such as
waste heat recovery, rectification or efficient
heat dissipation.
Just in the U.S., if
waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need
for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.