Sentences with phrase «produce waste heat»

It will also produce waste heat which will be used to heat your home, which is critical in California... NOT!

All power plants produce waste heat from their power generation equipment.

CSP, just like any thermal power plant, produces waste heat as a byproduct.

While the natural gas (methane) being reformed on - the - fly to make hydrogen in a stationary fuel cell unit produces waste heat, that heat can, in actual practice, be utilized not only to provide domestic hot water and home heat but also to drive adsorption - based air conditioners.

Not exact matches

These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning waste, using the released heat to boil water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that generate electricity.

Food waste can also be turned into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion, where the methane emissions from broken down food are captured to produce biogas, heat and energy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin - starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot project to collect their food waste, which is used to generate biogas and produce electricity and heat, as well as compost for farms around Paris.

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).

To produce a voltage, a good thermoelectric material needs to maintain a hot side — where the waste heat is, for example — while the other side remains cool.

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.

The researchers want to take this waste heat and capture it to produce more power.

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.

The lower operating temperature allows better integration with renewable or waste heat for producing hydrogen economically at large - scale and mitigates the high degradation rate and limited lifespan issues.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

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...

That means the engine produces more power and uses less fuel, while wasting less 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.

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.

Bottoming cycle: A waste - heat recovery boiler recaptures the unused energy and uses it to produce steam to drive a steam turbine generator to produce electricity.

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.

U.S. companies burn forest wastes both to produce process heat for their own use and to generate electricity for sale to local utilities.

Most often the wood waste is burned to heat water and create steam, which flows through a turbine to produce electricity.

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.

Electricity and heat can also be obtained from plant residues and animal wastes, either by burning them directly or by first producing biogas then burning it.

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

Every EXTRA heat, INCLUDING the geothermal heat, including heat from burning fossil fuel, is instantly wasted == therefore:» the earth's atmosphere releases MORE heat than what the sun produces on the earth».

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.

Most countries will have some no - regrets options (e.g. producing biogas for heat from organic waste) which can be implemented quickly and bring multiple, additional benefits.

Municipal Waste: Municipal waste energy comprises wastes produced by the residential, commercial and public services sectors and incinerated in specific installations to produce heat and / or power.

There are other factors such as albedo change, buildings that diminish surface winds, and anthropogenic heat sources from anthing that consumes fuel or electricity to produce work and waste heat which buildings then help to trap.

The fast - neutron reaction first converts fertile material — including nuclear waste, uranium, plutonium and thorium — to fissile material which then splits under neutron bombardment to produce heat and lighter elements.

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.

The «other» category contains (relatively) small electricity - producing resources such as tires and waste heat, as well as net capacity changes for hydroelectric and biomass energy resources.

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.

We're also supposing that all the carbon dioxide equivalent and waste heat we produce have a net impact upon the system.

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.

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.