electricity from waste heat News
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Clarke Energy & Agri-gen creating renewable energy from waste heat
Clarke Energy has secured its first order for a revolutionary technology that creates electricity from waste heat. Agri-gen a developer of anaerobic digestion plants has signed an order with Clarke Energy to supply the system to its Rendlesham anaerobic digester in Ipswich. Clarke Energy secures its first orders for two of GE’s Clean Cycle* heat to power generators Under the local ...
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Southern Research Institute Helps U.S. Navy Generate Electricity from Low-Grade Waste Heat
Southern Research Institute today announced it has finalized plans to demonstrate an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) generator at the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center, Mobile Utilities Support Equipment (MUSE) Division in Port Hueneme, Calif. which could potentially produce up to 624 gross megawatt hours of electricity in a year using waste heat and deliver a new ...
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EnviTec Biogas impresses German customers with ORC technology
More than half of the energy used worldwide in the industrial and agricultural sectors is lost as waste heat. The sustainable use of the waste heat thus opens up new avenues for alternative generation of electric energy not just in Germany. It is primarily the biogas plant operators who profit from the rotation principle of Organic Rankine Cycle technology (ORC), which the biogas plant ...
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Launch of new online power almanac of the American Midwest
We are launching a new online tool, the Power Almanac of the American Midwest, that will assist government officials, industry leaders, energy analysts and others in making informed energy decisions in the region. The Almanac integrates key energy and environmental data from some 50 disparate sources, tailored to the Midwest region, in a graphic and easy-to-use way. The Almanac is built around a ...
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Entropea at ECOS 2018
Lorenzo Tocci will be presenting his work and new paper at ECOS 2018. The paper entitled A Neural Network approach to the optimal design of radial inflow turbines for ORC applications will be presented Thursday 21 according to the technical program. Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is widely considered as a promising technology for the exploitation of low grade thermal energy for the conversion into ...
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Colorado utility commission approves sweeping Xcel rate and solar plans
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) last week approved a sweeping settlement agreement for Xcel Energy that will boost solar energy and introduce new rate structures for the state’s largest electricity provider. “Unlike some other states in the country, we were able to break the stalemate between the utility industry and the solar industry,” said Erin Overturf, an ...
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MIT, Thermoelectric materials are one key to energy savings
Breathing new life into an old idea, MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus and co-workers are developing innovative materials for controlling temperatures that could lead to substantial energy savings by allowing more efficient car engines, photovoltaic cells and electronic devices. Novel thermoelectric materials have already resulted in a new consumer product: a simple, efficient way ...
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Clarke Energy partners with the UN Environment on District Energy in Cities Initiative in India
Clarke Energy recently partnered with the UN Environment to take part in their ‘Cooling Smart Cities: The Arrival of District Energy in India’ workshop held in Rajkot. The event discussed the activities of the UN Environment-led District Energy in Cities Initiative and its efforts to accelerate investments, raise awareness and unlock supportive policy frameworks for district energy ...
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MIT students seek to harness waste heat
MIT's cogeneration plant, which provides most of the electricity, heat and air conditioning for the campus, could get even more efficient if a team of students' project to harness surplus heat works as expected. Andy Muto and Daniel Kraemer, graduate students in mechanical engineering, and Bryan Ho, a graduate student in materials science and engineering, have been working together on a ...
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Nexterra to power UBC
Nexterra Systems Corp. (Nexterra), a leading supplier of biomass gasification systems, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with the University of British Columbia (UBC) to supply and install a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) system at UBC's Vancouver campus. This is the first installation of its kind in North America and follows three years of collaboration ...
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Rising municipal solid waste generation fuelling the municipal solid waste-to-energy market, notes Frost & Sullivan
Extensive technology adoption and better collection efficiency of municipal solid waste (MSW) could help the Indian municipal solid waste-to-energy market register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.7 by 2013. The increase in the quantity of waste generated, coupled with the need for a proper means of waste disposal, offers significant growth opportunities to the market. New analysis from ...
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Air Products to Build the World`s Largest Advanced Gasification Energy-from-Waste Facility
Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it will build and operate the world's largest renewable energy plant in the UK using advanced gasification energy-from-waste (EfW) technology. The Tees Valley plant, located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside, will be the first of its kind in the UK, and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with an ...
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