Not exact matches
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.
Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a national goal
of deploying 40 gigawatts (GW)
of new combined
heat and power (CHP) and
waste heat recovery (WHR) by the end
of 2020, a 50 percent increase from 2010 capacity levels.
Industry is consuming 29TWh
of electricity they made themselves from
waste heat recovery power facilities, which are not tracked by electricity companies.
JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation
of energy - efficient transmission lines in Mongolia; the installation
of energy - efficient systems in the national hospitals
of Vietnam; the installation
of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers in Indonesia; the installation
of solar photovoltaic systems in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by
waste heat recovery in the cement industry in Indonesia.
Unwderground storage could allow
recovery of full year
wasted heat from city powerplants.
The purpose
of the Framework is to introduce a standardized and transparent methodology into industrial energy efficiency projects and practices including: system optimization, process improvements,
waste heat recovery and the installation
of on - site power generation.
Last but not least, an electric on - demand water heater can boost the water temperature if the combination
of waste - water
heat recovery and solar thermal pre-heating do not make it hot enough.
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.