Heat pumps for industry

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5161597

Research activities -- both in the laboratory and in the field -- confirm that heat pumps can improve energy efficiency and productivity for a multitude of process types. By using heat pumps, process industries can save significant amounts of energy and money and successfully control emissions. Those industries with special needs, such as recovering solvents, can meet them more energy efficiently and cost effectively with heat pumps. Through the years, OIT has helped industry solve its energy problems by joining in cooperative agreements with companies willing to do the research. The companies involved in these agreements share the costs of the research and benefit directly from the technology developed. OIT then has information from demonstration projects that it can pass on to others within industry. All the projects described in this brochure were joint ventures between DOE and industry participants. OIT will assist in accelerating the use of heat pumps in the industrial marketplace by continuing to work with industry on research and demonstration projects and to transfer research results and project performance information to the rest of industry. Successfully transferring this technology could conserve as much as 1.5 quads of energy annually at a savings of more than $4 billion at today's prices.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10093
• OSTI ID: 5161597
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH/10093-114; ON: DE91015030
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CHEMICAL HEAT PUMPS
COGENERATION
DEUS
EFFICIENCY
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EVALUATION
FOOD INDUSTRY
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INDUSTRY
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MATERIALS RECOVERY
PAPER INDUSTRY
PETROLEUM REFINERIES
POWER GENERATION
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
RUBBER INDUSTRY
SOLVENTS
STEAM GENERATION
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
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