Waste Heat Recovery: the potential of magnetocaloric energy conversion
Event details
| Date | 04.10.2012 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Didier Vuarnoz, Kobe University |
| Location |
MEC2405
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The main objective is to investigate numerically under which conditions and with which results industrial waste heat with a magnetic energy conversion machine can be economically utilized, and if it presents a possible alternative to some conventional energy conversion technologies. The application of numerical models leads to the thermodynamic efficiency, the exergy efficiency, and approximate values of the total mass and the total volume of a magnetic energy conversion machine as a function of its produced power. An economic feasibility study has been performed and shows an excellent potential of profitability for certain machines. The most important result of this study is that magnetic energy conversion may beat conventional technologies in a technical and economic manner. This is especially the case, if large low-exergy heat sources are at ones disposal
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. D. Favrat
Contact
- Fayet Brigitte <[email protected]>