In neighborhoods around the world, a potent resource slips away unnoticed. This buried treasure is waste heat — a powerhouse for low-carbon energy that often remains untapped. Buildings, factories and ...

Feel the heat radiating off a running car or touch the top of a warm refrigerator. Both are examples of mechanical processes that generate "waste heat." On a small scale, like running household ...

The next generation of heavy-duty diesel engine design is driven by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas emissions regulations that limit the amount of carbon dioxide and other ...

Heat recovery systems can be divided into two categories based on the thermal parameters of the system: Systems for energy recovery and conversion from waste heat with high thermal parameters (above ...

If you’ve ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you’ll know that your body produces lots of heat. This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human body ...

A research team led by Prof. Guo Bin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has designed and optimized an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system specifically for ...

The study published in the journal Solar Energy, introduces a solar thermal-boosted organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system as a potential solution for waste heat recovery in data centers. ORC is a ...

For heat recovery to be cost effective, it is essential for processes to be well coordinated and the cooling water discharge temperature needed for the process must be reached. Examples for use of ...

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