Sentences with phrase «of waste heat from»

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.

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

After the sun sets, I will attempt to avoid hypothermia by intercepting some of the waste heat from a wood fire — in spite of its peanut like influence.

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.

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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.

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.

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

The boiler in my house is in a common space with the greenhouse and waste heat from the boiler does some of the heating.

I also have an electric heater that keeps a daytime temperature of 80 degrees F. and nighttime temperatures of 65 to 70 degrees F. With lighting at 20 to 30 watts per square foot, waste heat from the lights does much of the heating.

And the waste heat from the gensets is also put to use to heat up steam boiler feed water, which is a further reduction of fossil fuel use in the factory.

I agree with you the players need some heat to perform to theor abilities and stop wasting created opportunities to kill games and or hold onto leads and i agree they need some heat to kick em in the arse to prevent them from under performing against milan but milan isnt city or chelsea but we need to beat them to get far in competition but i do nt think the players missing chances this year is whole heartey down to the manager and we need to finish out the year strong but with cazorla comong back and strengthening some spots in off season and now praying we finally have jack back this squad looks dangerous next year and wenger will have a good year with arsenal next year cazorla and another player will take time off xhaka and or put more pressure on him to perform but we have had success in recent seasons barley missing out on top four last year with highest points to ever miss out yes they need heat to perform strong rest of year but it is not wengers time to go yet be needs another season and if these two years are falling off we have done better than are rivals in are tough years

A new study offers some potential clues about the role of cooling towers, the equipment that expels waste heat from buildings» air conditioning or other systems.

«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 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.

From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through the loss of heat.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

Using waste heat from a coal plant to power the heat pump can mean 80 per cent of the energy put into the slush can be retrieved.

Circuits based on quantum packets of heat rather than electric charges could enable computers to use waste heat — which is currently just shed to keep a processor from overheating — to perform useful computations and store information, the researchers suggest in an upcoming Physical Review Letters.

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

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.

But these bulbs have always suffered from one major problem: More than 95 percent of the energy that goes into them is wasted, most of it as heat.

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

«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.»

Plants» daily cycle of heat resistance is a strategy that protects plants from the hottest parts of the day, while also potentially preventing energy being wasted producing heat shock proteins at night when it is cooler.

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.

Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).

But as transistors become tinier they waste more power and generate more heat — all in a smaller and smaller space, as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

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.

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

In the still, cold, evening air, a great cloud of steam from its eight cooling towers was a reminder of the colossal amount of heat our society wastes.

Using low - grade waste heat from an outside source, the researchers distill ammonia from the effluent left in the battery anolyte and then recharge it into the original cathode chamber of the battery.

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

New findings led by C.S. Chang of PPPL show that ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in France, should be able to withstand the enormous heat load that will strike the divertor plates that exhaust waste heat from the facility.

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.

They barely put out any heat and waste 50 % of the energy they use, the wires are not safe with glass or porcelain and they work best from the bottom, a big no - no with Kombucha, JUN or Kefir.

«Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste - to - energy facilities, which create electricity or heat from garbage.

The heat from the hot water bottle aids the penetration of the abdominal organs, allowing the oil to promote elimination of waste and to decrease stagnation in the liver and intestines.

Through oxygenation, the body generates heat and energy from its fuel, and disposes of wastes.

Not all of this can be used to do mechanical work, some of it is wasted in heating the engine itself and the rest is lost when the heated gases are exhausted from the cylinder.

It is beautifully landscaped and there are weird and wonderful touches like a swimming pool floating in the middle of a lake (it's heated to a bath - like 30 degrees by the waste heat from the adjacent power station).

Turbocharging can improve the fuel economy [88] of diesel engines by recovering waste heat from the exhaust, increasing the excess air factor, and increasing the ratio of engine output to friction losses.

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.

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.

Furthermore certain sources of energy that are considered «clean» such as nuclear power and the potential, in the future, to transmit energy from satellites to the Earth will continue to generate waste heat (thermal pollution) that will continue to warm the Earth.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

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.

In other, less windy regions lacking kinetic energy, there is still in the air, abundant CAPE (residual solar), existing either naturally (day, evening, summer), or through augmentation by transfer to air from waste heat sources, to produce a virtually inexhaustible supply of electrical energy.

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.