Sentences with phrase «of waste heat produced»

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

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.

Not exact matches

But to be effective, solar cell designers need to ensure the connecting junctions between these stacked cells do not absorb any of the solar energy and do not siphon off the voltage the cells produce — effectively wasting that energy as heat.

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.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

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.

The microbes convert the waste into methane, which can be used to produce commercial amounts of electricity and heat.

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).

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).

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.

«The light would come in and hit our PETE device first, where we would take advantage of both the incident light and the heat that it produces, and then we would dump the waste heat to their existing thermal conversion systems,» Melosh said.

Harvesting heat produced by a car's engine which would otherwise be wasted and using it to recharge the car's batteries or powering the air - conditioning system could be a significant feature in the next generation of hybrid cars.

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have reported success in using inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low - level waste heat...

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.

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.

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.

However, there's another method of producing your own electricity, which is using a thermoelectric generator that runs on «waste» heat that would normally just fly up the chimney and escape.

It is producing electricity with a 200 kW generator while recovering the waste heat to both heat the digester and reduce the use of oil - fired water heating required on the farm.

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.

By reusing waste heat, the total amount of produced electricity would be sufficient to cover all auxiliary consumption, resulting in substantial savings.

His challenge now is to persuade venture capitalists, energy executives and at least one community to back the construction of a full - scale vortex engine, capable of producing a power - packed funnel cloud that stretches kilometres into the atmosphere and runs on waste heat, ideally from a power plant.

That waste heat and ground and atmospheric by - products of producing it, along with the roads, farms, buildings, parking lots and the like, all are their own evidence.

Essentially you need to produce enough waste heat to generate current flows several times larger than that of the overturning circulation to be effective.

Both farming and food processing yield huge amounts of waste matter like food peels, oil and animal matter that can be biologically processed to produce gas that can be used for heating homes, for generating electricity as well as in a refined form used to power cars.

Projects working to preserve the forest by increasing the use of alternative fuels — such as methane gas produced from organic waste — for heat also help relieve women of the burden of gathering firewood from many miles away.

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.

The fans also sit on top of a municipal waste disposal company, where the incineration process produces a lot of heat.

The idea behind waste gasification is an attractive one: Take trash and subject it to extreme heat under anoxic conditions to produce syngas, a blend of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel source.

This sharp, unprecedented rise in the average global temperature during the last decade of the 20th century can not be explained as a temporary swing produced by natural causes alone, and its is very likely that heat - trapping waste gases are at least partly responsible for it.

ANY electro - magnetic radiation (waves or photons), of ANY wavelength is capable of giving rise to waste «heat» when absorbed in the proper medium; but THERMAL RADIATION is a special kind of EM radiation which is produced entirely because of the mechanical oscillatory modes of ordinary materials, and is dependent on the Temperature for its characteristic Spectral envelope.