Sentences with phrase «waste heat into»

Better to just dump the waste heat into the environment as quickly as possible to improve Delta T (which was not great to begin with) for the primary use of power generation.

Ships» generates large amounts of waste heat - With the Climeon Heat Power system, cruise, ferry and cargo ships can transform that waste heat into clean, sustainable electricity - what was previously a costly liability is instead turned into an asset.

Separately, China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) has been awarded a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity (7MW capacity) for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd., a nickel - iron manufacturing joint venture between China Zhonggang Group and Boasteel Group at a facility in Cangzhou City, China, reports Renewable Energy World.

And I recall one can make ice in the desert the same way; a concentrating solar power plant could also create a «cold reservoir» by radiating heat away from some storage material at night, then dumping waste heat into that in the daytime, perhaps.

In a vehicle, the device could be placed directly in the exhaust system with hot air going in one end and out the other all while it converts the waste heat into electricity that is fed back into the vehicle, bumping up the mileage by 5 percent.

This effect allows to convert waste heat into spin currents and thereby to transport energy as well as information in magnetic, electrically insulating materials.

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

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

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

Energy throws waste heat into the environment.

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.

It features an innovative Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) powered by Detroit that converts the engine's otherwise wasted heat into usable energy.

The thermal electric generator then converts the wasted heat into useful electrical energy to help power auxiliary systems.

Not exact matches

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

Food waste can also be turned into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion, where the methane emissions from broken down food are captured to produce biogas, heat and energy.

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.

Edel and student collaborators at the Illinois Institute of Technology are also building a custom - designed digester that will turn the project's leftover vegetable and fish waste into fertilizer and biogas to power a heating, cooling, and 280 - kilowatt electrical system.

Thermoelectric materials, which convert a temperature difference across their surface into a current, offer yet another way to generate energy from waste heat.

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.

«Researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning, heat insulation.»

«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.

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

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.

Another innovative proposal, to tap into waste heat created by the ferries that run back and forth between the island and the mainland, got shot down on practical grounds: Ensuring a fail - safe backup in case a ferry failed to show up would have been prohibitively expensive.

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).

But these bulbs have always suffered from one major problem: More than 95 percent of the energy that goes into them is wasted, most of it as heat.

He explained that the efficiency of a photovoltaic device is governed by a simple competition: light energy is either converted into waste heat or useful electronic power.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

The heat and pressure cause the cells of the waste material to break down into different fractions — biocrude and an aqueous liquid phase.

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

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

So when higher - energy photons come into the solar cell, they devote more of their energy to dislodging electrons and generating electric current, and waste less as heat.

«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.»

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

The resulting composite was able to convert heat which would otherwise be lost as waste into an electric current over a broad temperature range, going down to room temperature.

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.

The Navy agreed to house the animals in enclosures when they are not patrolling, which will prevent their waste from seeping into Hood Canal, and if temperatures drop below 52 degrees the dolphins» enclosure will automatically be heated, according to the environmental impact statement report.

The potential for capturing heat — from power plants, industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently wasted to be used to generate power.

«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.

Powered by wasted heat from the incinerator, the collectors use fans to suck ambient air into filters, which absorb carbon dioxide.

NUS researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning and heat insulation

In short, leptin causes the body — and individual muscle cells — to transform fat into waste heat, thereby slimming down the cells and the body.

This greater metabolic rate converts a greater proportion of «Total Energy Out» into «Wasted Heat» and is especially critical for surviving cold temperatures.

Commercial kitchens, such as the one associated with The Commons at Gutman Library are typically associated with energy intensive equipment; however, the project team incorporated many energy efficient design elements into the project, such as the capture and reuse of waste heat from the refrigeration equipment to pre ‐ heat the air supplied to the space.

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.

When the Insight is coasting or its brakes are applied, and the vehicle is in gear, its electric - assist motor becomes a generator, converting forward momentum into electrical energy, instead of wasting it as heat during conventional braking (vented front disc / rear drum brakes are still the main means of braking).

Overrun, or the so - called regeneration phase, is one of the most important instruments of this vehicle concept for optimizing efficiency as it transforms the braking energy released during deceleration phases back into electrical energy, instead of it being wasted and released as heat.

BMW ActiveHybrid technology uses energy that would be normally converted into heat through the brakes, and therefore wasted in conventional cars.