Exploiting wasted heat: New approaches to electricity generation from wasted heat

✍ Scribed by Richard Biddle

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 360 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-0846
• DOI: 10.1016/s1471-0846(05)70486-8

✦ Synopsis

ondering how to exploit wasted heat led to the formation, nine years ago, of a small team with a big dream. They were determined to find a way to extract power from wasted heat. They wanted not to create one-off custom solutions for particular sites, but to design a production-line answer to the global opportunity that wasted heat provides. That team became Freepower Ltd, a company based in Southern England. That dream, which has absorbed over £3 million in direct research and development costs, has created machines now being delivered to, and operated by organisations in Australia, Austria, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the USA. Mym Simcock, CEO of Freepower, explains "The life we lead demands power and generates unwanted heat, which we dump. In an energy-conscious age, that really is conspicuous consumption. Our view is that wasted heat is a huge, untapped energy source which we want to exploit. If we could use one percent of it we'd make a difference. If we could employ ten per cent of it, we'd revolutionise the energy-centric economy."

Turning to renewables

Freepower has succeeded in its objective. Affordable electricity is being generated in meaningful quantities from a variety of heat sources albeit, currently, on a small scale. Now, Freepower has revealed the next target Further information