Recycled factory heat benefits industries and the environment
Industrial processes account for more than a fourth of Europe’s primary energy consumption and produce a tremendous amount of heat. EU funded research is closing the circle with novel systems that…
Read Full articleChoosing the best techniques for waste heat recovery
Choosing the best techniques for waste heat recovery Darren Bryant, CEO of Heatcatcher UK, discusses best available waste heat recovery techniques for the glass industry and outlines UK government…
Read Full articleORC Technology in Oil and Gas industry
While including refrence cases, this paper describes the know-how from Turboden in design, development and maintenance of turbogenerators based on the ORC technology for Oil and Gas sector. Used in processes which include gas turbines exhaust gas, hot water from exhausted oil wells, associated petroleum gas an refinery hot streams.
Read Full Business PracticeHow waste heat recovery will change the landscapes
Each year industries across Europe allow a valuable source of heat energy to simply escape out their chimneys. An EU-funded project called ETEKINA has reimagined a decades-old technology called heat…
Read Full articleInnovative system recovers heat, water and material from industrial waste streams
We are excited to announce that the first innovative Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser (HPCE) has been commissioned at our project partner Alufluor AB in Sweden and is running. The aluminium fluoride…
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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 articleACTE Heat Exchanger
ACTE manufactures its own designed heat recuperators dedicated to waste heat recovery from gas exhaust and fumes. The outstanding geometry of these heat recuperators ensure valuable benefits such as increased lifetime, high effectiveness (counter-flow heat exchange) and lightweight/compactness (flat tube primary…
How reusing waste heat can take aluminium one step closer to becoming a greener industry
Aluminium is one of the most recycled commodities in the world, but the processes involved in the production of this metal still leave a high environmental impact on the planet. New waste heat…
Read Full articleIndustrial heat: An emission free energy source
Heat is a form of energy that is all around us. There’s heat from the sun (solar thermal), and from the earth (geothermal), but for this post, I want to talk about industrial heat - heat that is a…
Read Full articleWater & energy reuse: from waste to resource
Francesco Suman explains how Alufluor found novel ways to recover resources by partnering with an EU-funded project. Over the past years, EU industries and academics have increasingly collaborated to…
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