rankine cycle News
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Clarke Energy Short-listed in ADBA Awards
Clarke Energy has been short-listed in the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association’s Annual Awards. The company has been nominated as a potential recipient of the innovation award for the new organic rankine cycle engine project at Agri-gen’s facility in Suffolk. This facility incorporates ORC units producing power from surplus heat and was discussed in the following October press ...
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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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Biogas CHP webinar
Clarke Energy in collaboration with GE Power & Water, the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) and the Renewable Energy Association will be delivering a webinar on Biogas CHP – New Technologies, New Policy & Markets on the 28th November at 10am GMT. The free webinar will incorporate a look at new technological developments including to efficiency improvements to ...
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ADBA Conference 2013
Clarke Energy will once more be exhibiting at the UK Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association’s (ADBA) annual conference. The event will take place on the 3rd of December at One Great George Street in London. Clarke Energy is a specialist in the supply, engineering, installation and maintenance of biogas CHP units. Come talk to us to find out more about recent developments to the J312 ...
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ORC plants for biogas engines
Biogas is one of the most used alternative sources for the production of renewable energy and ORC technology can make it even more efficient. The biogas supply chain uses a low environmental system and is powered by raw materials of local origin. It is characterized by the fact that it exploits the fermentation of animal or vegetable waste substances. This method is particularly used in large ...
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Cranfield University and Global CSP partner to further develop small CSP collector with ORC generators
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is very unlikely to be installed in the United Kingdom -unless global warming turns UK into a sunny tropical island-, but research and dvelopment is often independent from the future application sites. UK’s Cranfield University and Global CSP, are joining efforts to develop two solar energy projects involving a CSP collector and an Organic Rankine Cycle ...
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International CHP Specialist of the Year
Clarke Energy has been announced ‘CHP Specialist of the Year’ in Acquisition International’s Business Excellence Awards. In their press release Siobhan Hanley Global Awards Coordinator from AI media stated “We’re proud to be able to showcase some of the most innovative and committed organisations from across the business world and the winners can be rightly proud ...
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U.S. PTO Approves Additional Patent Protection For Cyclone Power Technologies’ Green Engine
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.- yclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the company’s second overall patent on its heat-regenerative, external combustion engine. This latest action marks the seventh patent issued on Cyclone’s engine and its various, unique components. The Cyclone engine is a modern steam engine, ...
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Solar research laboratory opened at Cranfield
Cranfield University today cemented its importance in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) with the opening of the ‘Global CSP Laboratory’. The University is home to the largest CSP research activity in the UK and Cranfield is the only UK representative on the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) Joint Committee on CSP. The new Global CSP Laboratory – the UK ...
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Global CSP – The way forward for the Pacific Islands
A revolutionary solution to delivering 100% renewable uninterrupted power UK Trade and Investment in New Zealand are representing UK- based Global CSP at the ‘Transforming Pacific Energy Systems’ conference in Honolulu on the 21-23 July. It is now widely accepted Hybrid technologies is the new frontier to achieve best performance and uninterrupted supply of power, it is a mix of ...
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Supercritical-CO2 could hold the secrets for CSP
As the solar industry prepares to meet in San Francisco in three week’s time, at the 2nd CSP Plant Optimization Summit (7-8 September), Zhiwen Ma, Senior Engineer at NREL, has been speaking to CSP Today about his recent research into supercritical-CO2 for CSP. Ma is scheduled to present his paper on this at the conference, in which he outlines the main advantages of Super-critical CO2 when ...
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Supercritical-CO2 could hold the secrets for CSP
As the solar industry prepares to meet in San Francisco in three week’s time, at the 2nd CSP Plant Optimization Summit (7-8 September), Zhiwen Ma, Senior Engineer at NREL, has been speaking to CSP Today about his recent research into supercritical-CO2 for CSP. Ma is scheduled to present his paper on this at the conference, in which he outlines the main advantages of Super-critical CO2 when ...
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CSP cooling options: workarounds for water scarcity
Ahead of the CSP Yield Optimization Conference & Expo in Denver (October 27-28), CSP Today speaks to Babul Patel, senior consultant at Nexant Inc., about the cost implication of plant cooling options and how to operate plants effectively under increasingly stringent water restrictions. CSP Today: For CSP developers, what is currently the best option for addressing the issue of water ...
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Additional Electricity Generated With the Same Input With ORC Technology
New ORC plant from EnviTec Biogas put into operation Lohne, 25th September 2014 – More electricity with the same input? That's what the Organic Rankine Cycle technology (ORC) employed by the Lower Saxon biogas plant manufacturer EnviTec Biogas can do. Biogas plant operators in particular can profit from the procedure that the listed company already uses successfully throughout Europe. ORC ...
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CSP competition heats up as Fresnel design taps higher temperatures
Global installed Fresnel CSP capacity is currently around 177 MW, compared with 4.2 GW of parabolic trough capacity and 629 MW of CSP tower capacity, according to the CSP Today Global Tracker. While Fresnel designs offer some cost advantages in manufacturing and installation, advancement of these systems was hindered by an inability to operate at temperatures high enough to provide energy ...
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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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Clarke Energy wins Innovation Award from the REA for the Development of System Creating Renewable Power from Heat
Clarke Energy has been announced the winner of the Innovation Award at the British Renewable Energy Awards 2014. Competition was tight with a total of 39 companies short-listed under 12 categories. The award is in recognition for the development of its first project with a cutting edge organic rankine cycle (ORC) technology that utilises heat to produce power. The project in question has been ...
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New collaboration reinforces Cranfield’s solar reputation
Global CSP, developers of the world’s first precision engineered solar energy collector system, and Cranfield University are to work together on two solar energy projects. The collaboration will involve testing and improving Global CSP’s solar energy collector system – the ‘solar captor’. Based on aircraft technology, the solar captor is fully insulated against ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies Delivers Plans for Solar Engine to Renovalia Energy
Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets:CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced that it has delivered to Renolavia Energy SA, prototype design plans for a high-efficiency Rankine cycle engine, developed to run on solar thermal energy. The delivery satisfies Cyclone’s license agreement with the global renewable ...
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President Obama Visits ElectraTherm and Promotes Renewable Energy, Fiscal Responsibility
ElectraTherm, a leader in small-scale heat to power generation, hosted President Obama on Thursday, April 21, where the President held a town hall meeting. The President spoke to the audience of 425 -- which included ElectraTherm employees -- for more than an hour; the only Reno stop on a trip out West and his third "Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity" town hall last week. ElectraTherm ...
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