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OverviewDriven by a wide range of both current and emerging economic, environmental, and political realities a new era of energy efficiency is sweeping across the entire world. In the United States, a call to arms in combating global warming and our dependence on imported foreign oil resounds from the citizenry, elected officials, and corporate executives alike. The tools used in this battle will come from many corners – increased use of renewable energy sources, improvements in energy delivery systems, and in a myriad of means that improve efficiency in all areas of energy generation and use. Waste heat recovery, a type of energy recycling in which heat generated by furnaces and various industrial processes is converted into electricity, promises to be a major player in the energy recovery field. Currently, large-scale steam turbine systems exist that can capture and recycle waste heat into useable electricity but are only applicable in 10% of all potential cases because of these systems’ enormous power requirements. Clearly, the need exists for systems that will work for the remaining 90% of waste heat generators. Nationally, there are an estimated 47,000 heat stacks that generate waste heat with temperatures higher than 500° F. The Energy Forge waste heat recovery system engineered by Waste Heat Resources, Inc. provides a viable, cost-effective, and low-maintenance means of generating significant amounts of electricity for many of those 47,000 potential customers. Company ProfileWHR was incorporated in 2008 with offices in both New Hampshire and California to develop and apply a revolutionary method of capturing waste heat that promises to bring unprecedented efficiencies to electrical co-generation. Our proprietary technologies allow any company that generates almost any amount of waste heat to convert that waste into clean electricity at very low cost while simultaneously lowering its carbon footprint. Our mission is to help companies “Improve the Environment while Improving the Bottom Line." Toward this end, we have licensed the use of Cyclone Power Technologies' WHE Series Engines. They are external combustion engines which can run on virtually any kind of fuel. They burn anything from diesel to propane, algae oil to coal dust, even wood chips and municipal trash. Unlike an internal combustion engine, they burn the fuel completely, thereby reducing emissions to next to nothing. They, in themselves, are considered a green technology because of their inherent flexibility and efficiencies. In our case, the "fuel" we use is heat that is normally vented into the atmosphere. It is already paid for, it is free. That is why we can claim that we are getting something from nothing. Each system must be custom engineered for each furnace using correct thermal principles which insures the furnace's continued proper function. An added benefit of this is that the condenser unit can preheat the furnace's intake air, thus improving it's firing fuel consumption rate. Simply put, we are taking most of the components of a steam cogeneration solution and substituting the turbine with a Cyclone engine that results in a system that is FAR more efficient in terms of cost, maintenance and waste heat consumption. In other words, the Energy Forge will be less expensive, more user friendly and need fewer BTUs to produce high quantities of kWhs. ApplicationsAny company that seeks greater operational efficiencies through lowered energy costs and consumption and that also generates sufficient waste heat to power an Energy Forge is a potential customer for WHR. We offer custom-engineered solutions tailored specifically for each customer’s unique requirements. Upon the signing of an initial agreement, our team of engineers performs a site inspection to determine the optimum configuration for the site. Next, we design an Energy Forge system sized appropriately for that site taking into consideration all customer requirements regarding back-pressure and other factors. For some sites a one-engine system is optimal, for others a system comprised of multiple engines can provide enhanced economy of scale.
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