Smashing it in Sustainable Ceramics. Ceramic industry producers now need to become carbon neutral by 2050 and still have a lot to do, but with technology like heat exchangers on the horizon, that’s looking like a more realistic goal. Closeted away in the Northern Italian town of Pavullo, Atlas...
Steel and Ceramics Sectors Consortium Identify Opportunities to Cut Carbon Emissions. A consortium of companies from the steel and ceramics sectors, led by the Materials Processing Institute, has investigated ways of improving waste heat recovery from furnaces leading to several opportunities...
Purdue-Designed Heat Transfer Experiment Arrives at International Space Station. People who design spacecraft must prioritize two factors: reducing weight and managing extreme temperatures. A new experiment designed by Purdue University engineers addresses both problems. The Flow Boiling and...
New Material Offers Ecofriendly Solution to Converting Waste Heat into Energy. Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to useful electricity. On Mars, the heat source is the radioactive decay of...
Sustainable Electricity Generation at Low Temperatures. Low-temperature heat in the form of waste heat from industry or geothermal power plants offers big potential for sustainable and need-tailored power supply. The Modular Low-temperature Cycle Karlsruhe (MoNiKa), the only research facility...
The Right Ring Count to Harness Waste Heat. Electronic organic materials offer promise to support alternative and green energy sources to meet escalating global energy demands and strict environmental regulations. A KAUST-led team has now developed electron-transporting, so-called n-type,...
Zeroing in on the Potential of Solar Energy to Meet Industrial Process Heat Demand. Today, natural gas and coal combustion supply most demand for industrial process heat (IPH), or the transfer of heat to a material within a production process. With the emergence of low-cost solar photovoltaic ...
Micropillar Compression for Finding Heat-Tolerant Alloys. Metals containing niobium silicide are promising materials that can withstand high temperatures and improve efficiency of gas turbines in power plants and aircraft. But it has been difficult to accurately determine their mechanical...