Sentences with phrase «of waste heat»

And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces, the amount of wasted heat grows.

That process results in a lot of waste heat.

Engineers have developed a thin - film system that can be applied to sources of waste heat to produce energy at levels unprecedented for this kind of technology.

The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy - efficient and thus more environmentally friendly.

Most of oil based energy is lost at the point of use (in the form of waste heat) during combustion.

I hadn't got around to looking into the issue of waste heat.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

This also helps lower the amount of waste heat put off by the monitor.

With a high temperature nuclear reactor, we would have plenty of waste heat to use in this chemical process.

Instead of wasting heat and energy, only heat the rooms you need.

District systems can also take advantage of waste heat from on - site energy generation, improving efficiency.

Combined heat and power facilities, like this one in Minnesota, take advantage of waste heat produced from generating electricity.

The warming due to the 16 TW or so of waste heat produced by humans is tiny in comparison.

Co-generation - The use of waste heat from thermal electricity - generation plants.

The contribution of waste heat to the global climate is 0.028 W / m2.

«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.»

The efficiency of waste heat conversion in thermoelectrics is reflected by its «figure of merit,» called ZT.

«The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,» said Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering.

In the long run the limiting factor in high levels of energy consumption will be the disposal of the waste heat

Commercial kitchens, such as the one associated with The Commons at Gutman Library are typically associated with energy intensive equipment; however, the project team incorporated many energy efficient design elements into the project, such as the capture and reuse of waste heat from the refrigeration equipment to pre ‐ heat the air supplied to the space.

We have seen issues with overheating in the past with Nvidia mobile chips, and in the corner near the camera of the Nexus 9 you can detect significant levels of waste heat.

Rather than an «exhibition» being an instance of putting something «on view» or «made visible,» it gains an oblique function as a generator of wasted heat — a property that is felt on the surface of the skin by replacing the lights coming from above with heat coming from below.

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.

The sterling engine, used as an electrical generator, can produce about 200 watts of power (it will never be more then 20 percent efficient) and 800 watts of waste heat (the waste heat that slingshot uses).

Thanks to this, the data center reuses about 85 % of its waste heat at about 50 % of the electrical expense.

For example, Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) which operate at much higher - pressure levels, are both larger in size and less efficient at the low temperature where the largest bulk of waste heat is found.

The Climeon system combines high efficiency and low overall cost, driving significant savings in fuel and electricity costs, to create a powerful business case for the utilization of waste heat.

Of course, the cost and complexity of the thermoelectric unit also demonstrates why a lot of waste heat goes uncaptured, since it is cheaper to use more electricity or fuel than to improve system efficiency.

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.

We have discussed the issue of waste heat before, in the context of both incandescent lightbulbs and the cogeneration of heat and power.

I still think there may be major synergies between the ethos of Ecotricity and these natural gas fuelled units which can provide highly distributed, ultra efficient, power generation with utilisation of waste heat.

Furthermore the accumulation of waste heat and the effects of heat - holding surfaces can disrupt the inversion layer and bring warmer air above down to the surface.

It has long been observed that temperatures in cities are higher than in the surrounding countryside, caused, in part, by human structures that reduce albedo and evapo - transpiration, as well as by the effects of waste heat emissions, McCarthy et al 2010.

According to NEC, in this mode you can lower power consumption and the amount of wasted heat released into the environment.

Nuclear plants produce electricity, not liquid fuel, and the waste heat from nuclear plants is almost never used; apparently, not enough people want to live or work close enough to a nuclear plant to make the recovery of waste heat practical.

Not sure how local storage and 0.7 GW of waste heat production get connected nor how to generate electricity economically from warm water.

In theory an advanced alien civilisation could produce a lot of waste heat and still maintain a stable climate by using geoengineering to counteract waste - heat warming.

Unlike conventional transistors, thermal transistors would not require the use of silicon, are based on phonons rather than electrons and might make use of the large amount of waste heat that is already generated in most practical electronics, said Chen.

«Out of all the energy that goes into the U.S. economy every year, 60 percent is lost in the form of waste heat,» Delaire said.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

Now, we've definitely seen technologies before that harness energy from waste heat, but according to Berkeley Engineer, Alphabet's devices are the most efficient thermoelectric devices ever created and the company is setting their sights on major sources of waste heat — combustion exhaust from power plants and vehicles.