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Heat Recovery Solutions turning waste heat into revenue

Heat Recovery Solutions is drawing attention to an often-ignored potential revenues stream for organizations whose machinery and industrial processes generate low-temperature waste heat. Its new range of waste heat power generation machines can turn heat generated by reciprocating engines (such as landfill gas engines), biomass boilers and industrial processes (including incinerators and processing plants) into electricity which can either be used on-site or sold to the grid.

The technology can therefore add additional revenue streams with few variable costs to all kinds of manufacturers, agricultural waste sites, mills, landfill sites and other industrial processes that generate waste heat at temperatures of around 120 °C or higher.  And, by using heat that would otherwise go into the atmosphere, this can be a profitable way for European companies to help meet the EU’s target that requires 20 per cent of energy be generated form renewable sources by 2020.

Brad Garner, HRS’s CEO, said: “Waste-heat-to-electrical power generation is now ready for the mainstream.  It’s just about the greenest technology there is.  However, our customers will not buy for environmental benefits. For them, this is a purely commercial purchase based on economics. If you’re wasting heat, you’re wasting money”.

Heat Recovery Solutions new ‘CleanCycle’ waste heat-to-electricity generator is designed to be commercially viable in the 100-150kW range.  The company has shipped 20 units already which together have racked up more than 7000 working hours.