Sentences with phrase «industrial waste heat»

In an ideal outcome, Nanologix would be able to utilize a relatively benign species from this group of anaerobes to produce hydrogen from food scraps and industrial waste heat, such as from electrical utilities.

However, big cities offer opportunities for co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

A global - scale instrumental temperature record that has not been contaminated by (a) artificial urban heat (asphalt, machines, industrial waste heat, etc.), (b) ocean - air affected biases (detailed herein), or (c) artificial adjustments to past data that uniformly serve to cool the past and warm the present... is now available.

For larger applications, the company has the E1 system that is built into an ocean freight - sized container and suited for heavy manufacturing and larger industrial waste heat conversion.

Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

There are high hopes that such designer clathrates can be technologically applied in the future, to turn industrial waste heat into valuable electrical energy.

Advanced materials are essential in improving the overall system efficiency at high hydrogen production rates, reducing capital cost, and efficiently using renewable and industrial waste heats.

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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.

The present heat - storage ceramic is expected to be a new candidate for use in solar heat power generation systems, which are actively promoted nowadays by European countries, and also for efficient use of industrial heat waste.

«The availability of waste heat is widespread, from industrial processes, to solar heat, and even the heat coming out of vehicles, and it's usually just wasted.»

Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the use of rejected «waste» heat from other industrial or power plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.

Every year 10 gigawatts of potential power are squandered as waste heat from industrial processes — enough to light 10 million homes.

Many industrial sites, geothermal sources or solar generating plants also create low - grade heat that is wasted.

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.

A 160 MWe SMR - 160 was identified as a near - optimum size to back - fit existing grids and brownfield sites for retiring fossil units, to suit the power needs of communities and industrial complexes not proximate to major grid infrastructure and city - centers, and to facilitate simple passive rejection of a limited decay waste heat.

We've covered examples and low - tech tips on how to do this before, and now Spanish industrial designer Fabio Molinas takes this low - tech approach further by combining the waste heat of a conventional fridge with time - honoured tradition of using of clay to cool down perishables.

[7] Power plant efficiency can also be greatly improved by using «combined heat and power» systems that use waste heat from the combustion process for space heating or industrial applications, [8] or by using a «combined cycle» that uses the waste heat to power a steam turbine and make more electricity.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

The heat source can be solar energy, waste industrial heat, warm sea water or simply warm humid air.

3) Accelerated capital cost allowance has been expanded to include investment in technologies that generate electricity using waste heat from industrial processes.

It built a combined heat and power plant to use tree waste from the city's parks, industrial wood waste, and wood from other sources.

89 Until we get zero waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

(10.3) In 2010, industrial GHG emissions were comprised of direct energy ‐ related CO2 emissions of 5.3 GtCO2eq, 5.2 GtCO2eq indirect CO2 emissions from production of electricity and heat for industry, process CO2 emissions of 2.6 GtCO2eq, non ‐ CO2 GHG emissions of 0.9 GtCO2eq, and waste / wastewater emissions of 1.5 GtCO2eq.

Project activities can include but are not limited to: transportation; combined heat and power; energy; livestock and agricultural; waste and wastewater; industrial sector; sequestration, including wood product substitution; and other activities on a technology - neutral basis.

If population centres are more likely to have large expanses of asphalt (sports complexes, shopping malls, industrial storage, highways, etc.), this may be the big culprit, not waste heat associated with creature comforts.

The most important driver for anthropogenic (human - induced) climate change is the consumption of fossil fuels for heat and electricity, oil for transport, industrial production, agricultural activities and waste generation.

The purpose of the Framework is to introduce a standardized and transparent methodology into industrial energy efficiency projects and practices including: system optimization, process improvements, waste heat recovery and the installation of on - site power generation.

Running a steam turbine requires more heat than about 90 % of industrial processes waste.

The central heat sources can be waste - heat recovery at industrial processes, waste - incineration plants, cogeneration power plants or stand - alone boilers burning fossil fuels or biomass.

Burning biomass (such as plant and animal waste) will supply 60 % of industrial fuels and heat, 13 % of building heat, and 13 % of electricity needs.

Sources of heat include: industrial and process sources such as power stations, industrial processes (such as chemical industries, clinical waste incinerators and food producers), building cooling systems and refrigeration (such as offices, supermarkets and data centres), sewerage systems and water treatment works, London Underground tunnels and electricity substations; and environmental sources — air, ground, water (that retain solar heat).