Sentences with phrase «use of waste heat»

With its long coastline, many coastal power plants, and need for more water, California is a good place for this use of waste heat, and the last I read the plans are in for about 20 desalination plants.

«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

«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.

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.

The new brewery cuts energy use by 50 % per barrel through thoughtful building design, solar lighting and the recycling of process waste streams like water and heat.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

The company's website describes the benefits to brewers, wineries and distillers, stating all three can use the organic - material byproducts of the brewing and distilling process to heat their facilities, thus saving money on both energy and waste disposal.

«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.

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.

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

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.

In a conventional solar cell, only part of the solar spectrum is put to use, with the rest reflected or wasted 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).

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.

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

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.

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.

This knowledge allows the engineers to take advantage of synergies such as using the waste heat of one system to heat another.

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.

That heat is a byproduct of the microprocessors in your device using electric current to power computer processing functions — and it is actually wasted energy.

Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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...

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.

Ask students to speak with school Operations or Facilities workers to gather information on topics such as the temperature or timing that determines the use of air conditioners, times when heating might be wasted in the school, etc..

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.

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.

Modern HEVs make use of efficiency - improving technologies such as regenerative braking, which converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into electric energy to charge the battery, rather than wasting it as heat energy as conventional brakes do.

It uses the waste heat of the electrical components to climatize the interior and is thus a central component of the thermal management system.

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.

This isn't a case of «we'll get use to it because we have to» its «go - away heat», a term used when professional wrestlers aren't getting booed by fans because they're good at being a bad guy but because the fans genuinely feel like their time is being wasted.

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.

We've covered examples and low - tech tips on how to do this before, and now Spanish industrial designer Fabio Molinas takes this low - tech approach further by combining the waste heat of a conventional fridge with time - honoured tradition of using of clay to cool down perishables.

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.

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.

C. However, most home owners are now considering going to the Point of Use water heating units which removes the waste of energy and reduces the cost of additional plumbing.

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.

Other sources include petroleum fuels used for heating, the decomposition of waste in landfills, waste incineration, and wastewater treatment.

Philo, a lot of that waste heat is used to make things cold: refrigerators, air conditioners, ice machines, ice cream makers, etc..

As your azollaculture technology matures and the price comes down, you might end up growing huge amounts of azolla for fodder, pumping part of it back into nighttime power, and using your CSP / bio-coal «waste» heat for distilling water.

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.

On top of that, waste heat from car engines, air - conditioners and other energy use adds to overall air temperatures.

The combined heat and power plant, using 250,000 tons or more of waste wood per year, now supplies district heating to some 80 percent of the downtown area, or more than 1 square mile of residential and commercial floor space.