District heating: balancing green energy with end-user needs
As district heating companies search for new sources of low-carbon energy to distribute to customers, they find themselves serving both energy supplier and end-user. What challenges does their…
Read Full articleThe European Investment Bank (EIB) revises energy lending criteria
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will phase out support to energy projects reliant on fossil fuels: oil & gas production, infrastructure primarily dedicated to natural gas, power generation or heat…
Read Full articleNew decade opens with cascade of US coal plant closures
The new decade is opening with a mounting cascade of plant closures in the United States coal industry, with investors abandoning ship, revenue being driven down by record-low gas and renewable energy…
Read Full articleJoakim Palmberg
Drives and leads the global growth, portfolio management, value proposition and marketing of the industrial temperature & gas segment.
Author detailsEmissions Impacts of Alternative Fuels Combustion in the Cement Industry
Authors: Ali Hasanbeigi, Navdeep Bhadbhade With over 7% of global CO2 emissions, decarbonization of the cement industry will play a key role in achieving the Paris Climate Agreement targets. The deep…
Read Full articleActive Energy Efficiency
This white paper argues strongly that meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets set within the Kyoto Protocol will fail unless Active Energy Efficiency becomes compulsory.
Read Full Business PracticeSonac - heat recovery from high corrosive flue gas
Sonac uses, amongst others, animal fat residues to fire steam boilers. This examples describes how Sonac uses a HeatMatrix system to recover waste heat from the highly corrosive flue gas to heat up boiler feed water.
Read Full Business PracticeORC Plants for Industrial Heat Recovery
ORC (organic ranking cycle) technology can be used to produce electricity by recovering heat from industrial processes, reciprocating engines and gas turbines. In this example, turbogenerators from Turboden are described, being able to generate power in ranges between 200 kW and 20 MW electric.
Read Full Business PracticeSome like it hot – Is Hydrogen the answer to those needing it a little warmer?
In my recent predictions for energy over the next ten years there was one prediction I felt I could have explained a bit more. I predicted that Hydrogen would develop in pockets but I didn’t go into…
Read Full articleHeat Recuperator in Air Transport
How to increase the environmental performances of airplanes and air transport? A 1pg paper illustrating a project by ACTE about designing and manufacturing an air-to-air heat exchanger directly installed in a gas turbine exhaust nozzle. The challenge: combine lightweight compactness and high effectiveness.
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