
Cheaper Storage, Bigger Markets, Lots of EVs… Are you Ready?
Davion Hill, first published here. We’ve talked a lot about falling energy storage costs, and you’ve heard me say cost reductions of 8-15% per year have been the historical norm, at least for the last…
Read Full articleThe Pitfalls of LED Linear Tubes and Smart Lighting Systems
from Wesley Whited, DNV GL The Pitfalls of LED Linear Tubes and Smart Lighting Systems At first glance, retrofitting an existing fluorescent fixture with an LED Linear tube seems like an appealing…
Read Full articleSmall systems, big benefits
How the heat pipe heat exchangers designed by ETEKINA partners are shaping the waste heat recovery systems of the future. In early February this year, the cost of carbon reached record highs with…
Read Full articleCarlsberg - heat recovery via heat exchanger
Breweries have often invested in conversion of waste water in bio-gas to co-fire steam boilers. Energy recovery from the waste heat has then to deal with flue gas being highly corrosive. This paper describes a solution from HeatMatrix installation in a Carlsberg brewerie.
Read Full Business PracticeClean Power when ORC System recovers Waste Heat
Generating clean power in Japanese incineration plant: When the Japanese-based company Daiichi Jitsugy got a request from Ertec to install an ORC system in their new waste incineration plant, the company’s engineers knew that they would need a heat exchanger out of the ordinary.
Read Full Business PracticeHeat 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.
Read Full Business PracticeInfrared Thermal Energy Scanning for Energy Efficiency Assessment
Highlights: Infrared scanning provides you with good images of the condition of an electrical installation without having to switch off the power or even touching the components.. The thermal images make you discover wasted energy and upcoming faults and infrared scanning has the best Return on Investment (ROI) of any of the available electrical inspection tools.
Read Full Business PracticeBehind-the-Meter Energy Storage Systems
This paper explores renewables-linked behind-the-meter energy storage systems. It explores applications which can be performed with such systems, including the business model behind such applications and the duty cycle requirements of such applications. It also explores siting and technology choices, including battery types, inverter classifications and other purchasing and installation…
Read Full Business PracticeUtilize all the available energy — Heat recovery
Today, global industry consumes a vast amount of energy. The biggest challenge is that as much as half of it is wasted due to the inefficient and complicated recovery of low-grade energy. Heat in the…
Read Full articleRank Organic Rankine Cycle Technology with applications in Heat Recovery solution
In a project involving ACCIONA and KEROS CERAMICA, RANK has worked with SWEP to implement a heat recovery solution for electricity power generation. ORC RANK equipment capacities range from 2 to 100 kWe. The activation range for the low-temperature equipment starts at just 85 °C.SWEP's heat exchangers are installed as economizers, evaporators and condensers.
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