Sentences with phrase «waste heat for»

And if Mr. Watts» Inconvenient Photographs are any indication at all, the surface stations have actually been measuring encroaching heat sinks and waste heat for the last two or three decades.

The project also includes mechanical separation and utilization of digested manure solids and the capture of generator waste heat for heating purposes.

The idea of capturing waste heat for other purposes is well known and very green, but what about when the waste heat is derived from burning the dead?

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.

Dresselhaus demonstrated that in a one - dimensional structure, it is possible to separately adjust electrical and thermal conductivity, and that this should allow the creation of new generations of thermoelectric refrigerators and new ways of scavenging waste heat for useful purposes.

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 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

That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30 patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.

As power plants are charged with decreasing their emissions it becomes more profitable for an entrepreneur to innovate a way to turn that wasted heat into useable energy, he says.

For example, 50 percent of the heat that escapes coal plants is wasted heat, Blumberg says.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

Soleri believes that if sufficient energy can be gathered for the industries at the base of the arcologies, the waste heat from these industries can meet the other needs for energy.

Add to this extreme heat, exhaustion, rough seas, poor ventilation and millions of litres of untreated waste, and a typical live export voyage quickly becomes the perfect storm for death and suffering.

It is time that Pace starts taking heat for wasting resources on bad players, but feel free to blame Fox for not being able to shine @ # $ %.

If the coil is compressed for too long or is not strong, energy is wasted as heat and the power release from the spring is compromised.

they're fab for breastfed babies as the teats are more like boobs rather than standard bottles and they heat up to boob temperature, they work with bloggers too so you may be able to get it as a review to try out saves you wasting money incase it doesn't work?

You don't want to waste an ounce of your baby's formula, but sometimes your little one is not ready for what you have heated.

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).

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

«We demonstrated for the first time that ceramics could help advance thermophotovoltaics as well other areas of research, including energy harvesting from waste heat, high - temperature catalysis and electrochemical energy storage.»

There is room for improvement: incandescent bulbs currently waste 90 percent of their energy as heat.

About 70 percent of all the energy generated in the world is wasted as heat, said Dimitris Niarchos of the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens, Greece.

The heating system enters each house via two lines — one for hot water coming in and one for waste water going out.

«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.

Biodigesters won't quite generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing waste and water contamination.

«Porous thermoelectrics can play a significant role in improving thermoelectrics as a viable alternative for harvesting wasted heat,» Niarchos said.

But thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electricity and vice versa, can harness that wasted heat, and possibly provide the green tech energy efficiency that's needed for a sustainable future.

For example, at the Oserian flower farm on Lake Naivasha, roses are now grown with geothermal waste heat to save energy.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

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

«We are able to take lignin — which most biorefineries consider waste to be burned for its heat — and turn it into high - value molecules that have applications in fragrance, flavoring and high - octane jet fuels,» Abu - Omar said.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

With this method, instead of warming the Trent Valley and the North Sea with the waste heat from centralised power stations, the hot water is piped from smaller units into district heating schemes for homes.

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

So Jason Wright at Pennsylvania State University is scanning the galaxies for waste heat given off by the machines of...

On the contrary, preliminary modelling by Mark Flanner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, suggests that waste heat would cause large industrialised regions to warm by between 0.4 °C and 0.9 °C by 2100, in agreement with Chaisson's estimates (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 36, p L02801).

«Managing and treating food waste is a global challenge, particularly for cold countries like Canada where the temperature often falls below -20 °C and energy demands related to heating are high.»

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.

Such structures are currently of interest because they may be suitable for electricity generation from waste heat or as novel light sources and catalysts.

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?

Behind the building, a biodiesel generator and waste vegetable oil boiler, both dormant during the summer months, attest to the aquaponic system's thirst for energy — the pumps, filters and bioreactor run year - round at a sometimes deafening whir, and the winter brings a need to heat the tanks and power overhead lights, as well.

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.

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).

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.

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.