Heat generating wastes

According to the plans of the Bundesamt fur Strahlenschutz (BfS), solid and solidified radioactive waste forms, but in particular those with marked decay heat generation shall be disposed of in a final repository in a salt dome formation 191. Heat-generating waste includes spent HTR fuel elements which are not to be reprocessed. 

Refrigerators declined in efficiency following World War II due, apparently, to the substitution of lower-cost, lower-efficiency motors with improved thermal insulation to protect them from waste heat generation, and there is some evidence that water heater efficiency declined between the end of World War II and 1975, and that industrial dry-type transformers declined in efficiency between 1970 and 1993. 

The introduction of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century opened up an entirely new approach to combined heat and power. Rather than using the same fluid for the heat and power process as was the case with hot air and steam processes, the tremendous waste heat generated by the internal combustion process can easily be transformed into useful heat. Cogeneration applications using stationary engines were common in Europe prior to World War I and remain quite popular because the heat is relatively... 

When compared to purely chemical synthesis, bioprocesses are operated under relatively mild conditions and in aqueous solvents they are essentially low temperature processes with operating temperatures usually below 40°C. The pH of most bioprocesses is between 6 and 8 and the pressure is usually one atmosphere. Under these conditions, substrates (eg oxygen) can be poorly soluble in water, which may limit productivity. Since reactions can generate considerable amounts of heat, waste heat generated during bioprocesses often has to be adequately dissipated to ensure high temperatures do not damage enzymes or cells. 

Carbon Monoxide Boilers Carbon monoxide boilers are used to recover waste heat generated from oil refining fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes. The FCC process produces copious volumes of by-product gas containing 5 to 8% carbon monoxide (CO), which has a heat content of about 150 Btu/lb. A 10,000 barrel (bbl) per day FCC unit produces 60,000 to 150,000 lb/hr of CO. 

Economizers are heat transfer tube bundles that preheat MU water or FW flowing within the tubes by extracting waste heat from the flue gas during its exit path to the stack. They typically account for approximately 10% of the total boiler heat transfer surfaces, while absorbing only 7% of the total heat generated in the boiler system. 

The development of district heating systems is linked with the development of other systems such as combined heat and power systems, which generate waste heat, together with power. These increase the fuel use efficiency [35]. Also heat pumps should be introduced in residential heating systems [18]. In some countries like Norway, district heating system s GHG emissions have been compared with those of individual heating systems and it has been found that the first have lower C02 emissions. 

Copeland A process for oxidizing organic wastes in a fluidized bed of inert particles. The wastes may be solid, liquid, or gaseous, and the oxidant is air. Inorganic residues are collected as granular solids and the heat generated is normally utilized. Developed and marketed by Copeland Systems, Oak Brook, IL, United States, and used in a wide variety of industries. 

Along with refueling vehicles, the system provides hydrogen into a fuel cell stack to produce electricity for buildings on the site, which are also warmed by the waste heat generated by the power unit. 

Is any heat generated during the mixing or physical processing of substances NO No indication of exothermic behavior when premixing wastes... 

In both the OSHA PSM Standard and the EPA RMP regulation, the PHA element does not currently specify the factors that must be considered to effectively manage reactive hazards. Present requirements should be augmented to explicitly require an evaluation of such factors as rate and quantity of heat generated maximum operating temperature to avoid decomposition thermostability of reactants, reaction mixtures, byproduct waste streams, and products effect of charging rates, catalyst addition, and possible contaminants and understanding the consequences of runaway reactions or toxic gas evolution. 

Waste heat generated ean be eaptured for other uses... 

Left) Compost pile hygiene The heat generated by the process of decay will kill many pathogens, but material infected with certain very persistent diseases, such as clubroot, should be taken to a green waste recycling center. 

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