The Ricardo - led Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) project will apply 48V «intelligent electrification» concepts, mild hybridization and
waste heat recovery in a Ford Focus diesel demonstrator.
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.
JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines
in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems
in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers
in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems
in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by
waste heat recovery in the cement industry
in Indonesia.
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.