Sentences with phrase «use waste heat»

If we have to have nuclear plants, I hear they can use waste heat to make hydrogen out of water.

Better to put in new combustion turbines and use their waste heat to drive the old coal boilers.

These can use waste heat, large - scale heat pumps that draw warmth from rivers and potentially hydrogen, the CCC says.

Simple examples exist today, like co-generation power plants that use their waste heat to generate energy to heat and cool homes, or in a particularly popular example given that evening, the Brooklyn Brewery sharing its waste for livestock feed or energy generation.

[7] Power plant efficiency can also be greatly improved by using «combined heat and power» systems that use waste heat from the combustion process for space heating or industrial applications, [8] or by using a «combined cycle» that uses the waste heat to power a steam turbine and make more electricity.

If you're going to be online and using data centers, you might as well use their waste heat to warm up the room in which you're web surfing, right?

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.

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

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.

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

The 70C temperature requirement could be met using the waste heat from power plants, coal or nuclear.

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

They considered including using the waste heat for desalination, but the nuclear plants would need a major redesign to make the desalination plants commercially viable.

3) Accelerated capital cost allowance has been expanded to include investment in technologies that generate electricity using waste heat from industrial processes.

[1] An NGCC plant first uses a gas combustion turbine to generate electricity, then uses the waste heat to make steam to generate additional electricity in a steam turbine.

From what I've read, Fuel cells run on nat gas are about 50 % efficient and approach 80 % if hot water generation is included using waste heat.

how about using the waste heat from cooling systems and exhausts for something?

With secondary processes like using waste heat to dry municipal waste (sterilize) prior to recycling you have increased the efficiency of both processes.

An AVE using waste heat should self - start.

Located in Roosevelt County, Montana, the Culbertson Waste Heat project is a GHG emission reduction project using waste heat from the exhaust of two natural gas compressor stations.

Americas Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii heats its pool using waste heat from a chiller system at no cost.

While called «strange and eerie,» the plan could save the city $ 23,000 a year in energy costs by using waste heat.

New York University, for example, may rank as a big emitter in New York, but a year ago it opened a co-generation facility that makes electricity and uses the waste heat to heat and cool buildings, thus doing far more work per pound of carbon dioxide emitted than most other sources.

Not exact matches

All that energy is used to heat solid and liquid wastes to temperatures that effectively disinfect it.

«We break down the waste using heat and convert it into a gas that is as clean as natural gas.

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.

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.

Poortenga told a Michigan Fox News affiliate that families who want to go green will be happy to know that breastfeeding their child will reduce the need for unnecessary energy use (unless bottled, it does not need to be heated up in a microwave) and packaging (natural sources don't add to air pollution or waste).

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.

Trafford Council spend up to # 100,000 a year sending waste wood to landfill, and the network has now been developed to process this wood and use it to provide affordable heat in vulnerable households.

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.

The green - minded generator uses a process that saves power by converting heat that would normally be wasted into steam, which can then be used to cool air during the summer months and heat water in the winter.

«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.

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

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.

Whatever you use energy for, it almost all ends up as waste heat.

However, if humanity manages to thrive despite the immense challenges we face, and keeps on using more and more power, waste heat will become a huge problem in the future.

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.

Where are the UK projects that use, for example, waste heat from power stations to accelerate algal growth, or indeed, hot air from Westminster, home to Parliament?

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.

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.

So they have managed to create centralized power plants to create electricity and the heat waste from that process is used for desalinating water.

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.

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.

«For example, we know that some metallic glasses have demonstrated enormous potential for use in electric motors, reducing waste heat and converting more power from electromagnetic fields into electricity.»