Comments for The Green Energy Guru http://greenenergyguru.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Pickens got it right! by speakforthose http://greenenergyguru.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/pickens-got-it-right/#comment-58 speakforthose Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:45:12 +0000 http://greenenergyguru.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-58 If you're looking for "opportunity fuels," how about waste heat? I’m associated with Recycled Energy Development, a company that turns manufacturers’ waste heat into clean power and steam. The result? More efficiency, which means lower energy costs AND lower greenhouse emissions. Indeed, studies done for the DoE and EPA suggest doing this just at industrial facilities could reduce carbon pollution by 20%. At the same time, it would cut power costs by about $70 billion. Maybe it's a bad move to spill this secret, but RED thinks more competition is a good thing. We've got to change the culture among manufacturers so that more people know about this possibility. Right now, it's the Amazon out there; a few more explorers won't lead anyone to trip over each other. If you’re looking for “opportunity fuels,” how about waste heat? I’m associated with Recycled Energy Development, a company that turns manufacturers’ waste heat into clean power and steam. The result? More efficiency, which means lower energy costs AND lower greenhouse emissions. Indeed, studies done for the DoE and EPA suggest doing this just at industrial facilities could reduce carbon pollution by 20%. At the same time, it would cut power costs by about $70 billion.

Maybe it’s a bad move to spill this secret, but RED thinks more competition is a good thing. We’ve got to change the culture among manufacturers so that more people know about this possibility. Right now, it’s the Amazon out there; a few more explorers won’t lead anyone to trip over each other.

]]> Comment on Green + Efficiency = Win/Win by T R Balaji http://greenenergyguru.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/green-efficiency-winwin/#comment-4 T R Balaji Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:28:12 +0000 http://greenenergyguru.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/green-efficiency-winwin/#comment-4 Hi, Thanks for the invitation my EnergyCentral blog.Yes, you are spot on! We, at Energreen Power Ltd.,Chennai, India, recently commissioned a 1.4 MWe biomass gasification based power plant where the overal thermal energy efficiency is in the high 70's. Biomass such as Prosopsis and Cauarina is converted gasified to producer gas using a well proven patented technology from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The engine generator converts about 38% of the energy in the producer gas into electricity. The engine jacket heat representing 30% of the energy in the producer gas is used in a VAM system to generate about 60 TR of chilling capacity needed for our gasification process. Likewise, the exhaust heat is used in another VAM system to generate about 350 TR of chilling capacity, used to cool the textile mill blow room. The hot gases venting this VAM system @ 180 Deg C is then used to dry the incoming biomass. We are now working on another power plant for an IT Park, which will retire high cost grid electricity with low cost biomass power and the entire IT Park will be air-conditioned using the exhaust heat. Hi,
Thanks for the invitation my EnergyCentral blog.Yes, you are spot on! We, at Energreen Power Ltd.,Chennai, India, recently commissioned a 1.4 MWe biomass gasification based power plant where the overal thermal energy efficiency is in the high 70’s. Biomass such as Prosopsis and Cauarina is converted gasified to producer gas using a well proven patented technology from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The engine generator converts about 38% of the energy in the producer gas into electricity. The engine jacket heat representing 30% of the energy in the producer gas is used in a VAM system to generate about 60 TR of chilling capacity needed for our gasification process. Likewise, the exhaust heat is used in another VAM system to generate about 350 TR of chilling capacity, used to cool the textile mill blow room. The hot gases venting this VAM system @ 180 Deg C is then used to dry the incoming biomass. We are now working on another power plant for an IT Park, which will retire high cost grid electricity with low cost biomass power and the entire IT Park will be air-conditioned using the exhaust heat.

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