Sentences with phrase «waste heat»

The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy - efficient and thus more environmentally friendly.

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

The company installed a 10 MW waste heat recovery power plant in one of its Indian subsidiaries, which is expected to reduce 80,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually.

In the production of power, nearly two - thirds of energy input from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat.

For example, changes in the climate caused by waste heat released into the atmosphere could lead to global disaster.

The researchers tested their devices for harvesting waste heat energy near room temperature.

There is good reason to focus on waste heat as an energy source — there is a lot of it.

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

He describes how urban centers can help us reduce and reuse waste heat, water and materials, creating revenue and lowering costs.

First of all, they knew an electric car doesn't waste heat through combustion.

Same with the article I posted in another thread about waste heat recycling.

How much waste heat is there that could run these things?

A heat pump removes waste heat from electrical components for thermal management and for interior climate control — an important efficiency module of the overall concept.

Avoid wasting heat by matching up your pot / pan size to the correct burner.

The device can spin waste heat from power plants into usable energy.

The system could also route waste heat back into the front end of the system, further increasing overall efficiency.

The heat source can be solar energy, warm sea water, warm humid air, or even waste heat rejected in a cooling tower.

Then there's the challenge of handling waste heat, which becomes more problematic as the processor gets bigger.

And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces, the amount of wasted heat grows.

This also helps lower the amount of waste heat put off by the monitor.

When industrial and power plants burn coal or natural gas, much of the energy in the fuel is lost as waste heat.

The «21st century» development will include a tech incubator, renewable energy, and greenhouse warmed by waste heat.

One is that waste heat from other commercial machinery can be added to the solar heat input.

Expect more oil sands projects to capture and reuse waste heat and embrace alternative processes that consume less energy.

Most conventional generators waste heat energy as they create electrical power.

Engineers have developed a thin - film system that can be applied to sources of waste heat to produce energy at levels unprecedented for this kind of technology.

Developed at IBM's Zurich lab, the system actually starts with fairly hot 45C water, running it past the blazingly hot microprocessors to bring them down to a (still toasty) 85C operating temperature, which then heats the incoming water beyond 50C, making it hot enough to be used as waste heat for building warming or municipal use.

In thermoelectric materials, efficiency is calculated as the measure of how well it converts heat — often waste heat generated by power plants or other industrial processes — into power.

With colleagues, Baughman has developed a «thermocell» constructed from a carbon nanotube - based material that converts waste heat into electricity.

Thermoelectric materials capture waste heat from sources such as automobile exhausts or industrial processes to produce electricity.

There are high hopes that such designer clathrates can be technologically applied in the future, to turn industrial waste heat into valuable electrical energy.

Preheating combustion air with waste heat from the plant will also increase efficiency, and some plants are considering schemes to use solar thermal collectors as air preheaters during daylight hours.

«Thermally regenerative batteries are a carbon - neutral way to store and convert waste heat into electricity with potentially lower cost than solid - state devices.»

They are turning to co-generation — a way of recycling waste heat such as steam for use as electricity — to both guarantee backup...

And in a side event, scientist and promoter Johannes Lehman from Cornell University made a push for how plant waste heated at high temps (called «biochar») might be a super-effective CO2 storage method (and less expensive, perhaps, than CCS?).

«Low - grade waste heat regenerates ammonia battery.»

Fusion generators are expected to operate for 12 months before needing costly maintenance, putting additional strain on internal parts including plasma facing components (PFCs) in the divertor — the region that exhausts waste heat coming from the plasma.

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.