Open-cycle vapor compression heat pump
Abstract
Large quantities of low-grade energy are wasted by industry in the form of low-pressure steam and low-temperature heat. The practical and economical recovery of energy from these sources is restricted by the limited number of useful applications for low-grade energy, and is further complicated by contamination of the waste streams. Thermo electron has developed an open-cycle steam heat pump system capable of the direct recovery and upgrading of low-grade waste steam. The system compresses low-pressure waste steam (or steam made from sources of low-temperature waste heat) to produce high-pressure steam suitable for use in industrial processes.
- Publication:
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Annual Technical Report
- Pub Date:
- April 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983tec..reptR....B
- Keywords:
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- Boilers;
- Energy Conservation;
- Estimates;
- Heat Pumps;
- Vapors;
- Waste Energy Utilization;
- Compression Tests;
- Contamination;
- Low Pressure;
- Low Temperature;
- Natural Gas;
- Steam;
- Engineering (General)