Sentences with phrase «of waste heat for»

«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.

Not exact matches

That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30 patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.

For example, 50 percent of the heat that escapes coal plants is wasted heat, Blumberg says.

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.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

Soleri believes that if sufficient energy can be gathered for the industries at the base of the arcologies, the waste heat from these industries can meet the other needs for energy.

Add to this extreme heat, exhaustion, rough seas, poor ventilation and millions of litres of untreated waste, and a typical live export voyage quickly becomes the perfect storm for death and suffering.

You don't want to waste an ounce of your baby's formula, but sometimes your little one is not ready for what you have heated.

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

«We demonstrated for the first time that ceramics could help advance thermophotovoltaics as well other areas of research, including energy harvesting from waste heat, high - temperature catalysis and electrochemical energy storage.»

There is room for improvement: incandescent bulbs currently waste 90 percent of their energy as heat.

About 70 percent of all the energy generated in the world is wasted as heat, said Dimitris Niarchos of the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens, Greece.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Biodigesters won't quite generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing waste and water contamination.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

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

With this method, instead of warming the Trent Valley and the North Sea with the waste heat from centralised power stations, the hot water is piped from smaller units into district heating schemes for homes.

So Jason Wright at Pennsylvania State University is scanning the galaxies for waste heat given off by the machines of...

On the contrary, preliminary modelling by Mark Flanner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, suggests that waste heat would cause large industrialised regions to warm by between 0.4 °C and 0.9 °C by 2100, in agreement with Chaisson's estimates (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 36, p L02801).

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.

Such structures are currently of interest because they may be suitable for electricity generation from waste heat or as novel light sources and catalysts.

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.

Without modern sanitation, life would be nightmarish — human and animal waste would fester on the streets along with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that you'd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning).

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

And unlike incandescents, which generate a lot of waste heat, LEDs don't get especially hot and use a much higher percentage of electricity for directly generating light.

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.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

Dresselhaus demonstrated that in a one - dimensional structure, it is possible to separately adjust electrical and thermal conductivity, and that this should allow the creation of new generations of thermoelectric refrigerators and new ways of scavenging waste heat for useful purposes.

His design calls for loops of liquid lithium to clean and recycle tritium, a key fusion fuel ingredient, while protecting tokamak components that exhaust waste heat, and cleaning dust and other impurities from the tokamak — all at the same time.

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.

They enable to re-use waste heat obtained in different processes for the operation of respective devices and thus contribute to the establishment of more energy - efficient, ecofriendly processes.

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

Scott's widescreen compositions capture the expansiveness of the heat - soaked Southwest plains; however, with the exception of a stunning Joan of Arc - inspired ending, Scott's gift for slick visual splendor is wasted on a run - of - the - mill Bonnie and Clyde - ish tale posing as profound social statement.

In electrified systems the process of regenerative braking is employed whereby the current produced during braking is fed back into the power supply system for use by other traction units, instead of being wasted as heat.

The options I selected were the Sport Pack that bundled the leather steering wheel (complete with paddle shift) with the 16in Spikeline alloys, the Leather Pack which combined part - leather for the sports seats with electric heating elements and the electric roof, which all greatly contributed to my enjoyment of the Roadster, although it was annoying to discover that, shortly after, Smart made the electric roof standard equipment hence wasting several hundred pounds of my money.

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro.

Overrun, or the so - called regeneration phase, is one of the most important instruments of this vehicle concept for optimizing efficiency as it transforms the braking energy released during deceleration phases back into electrical energy, instead of it being wasted and released as heat.

Overrun, or the regeneration phase as it is known, is one of this vehicle concept's most important instruments for optimising efficiency: the braking energy released during deceleration phases is transformed back into electrical energy instead of it being released as heat and wasted.

And though you may feel it's a waste of money not reading a book you don't get on with, that's like not opening the windows when the weather turns warm for fear of wasting the central heating.

You just wasted 4 hours of heating (considering it may take an hour to heat the space) for which couldn't be changed while you weren't in the house.

Some of those elements include: - Light - colored roofing that reflects heat and saves energy; - 70 percent ENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar or wind.

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.

You can preheat your water by using a hybrid system to use waste heat from the panels and / or in a seperate portion of roof space — water heating panels are much less costly per unit area and in terms of energy, but they are not of much use for electrical production; hence the need for other things.

Accountants should show governments the financial as well as human waste of using shoddy materials and designs, even for the short term: many schools are crumbling even without earthquakes, and they are expensive to heat, repair, and replace.

The big task ahead for Alphabet is to get the technology to an efficiency and at a scale where the cost of generating electricity from waste heat is cheaper than the cost of retail electricity.

For most of us, energy was something we rarely thought of beyond light bulbs or residential heating; instead, we tended to focus on solid waste reduction, sustainable food systems or reducing pollution.

Reduced local taxes and reduced stamp duty on dwellings that are insulated to the best standards would also help to combat the waste of fuel for heating.

The 10 tot 20 % of the waste not used was incinerated and the heat used for the processing (sterilizing) of half products.

A trial of the system on a military base showed that tents used for nighttime training were being heated all day too, wasting a lot of energy and money.

As I wrote in January 2011, N.Y.U. installed a small network of its own, burning natural gas in a unit that not only made electricity but also delivered the heat that would otherwise go to waste for use in heating and cooling.