Pwrcor, Inc Now Commercializes Its Disruptive Heat-To-Power Technology Breakthrough
October 02, 2019 at 09:01 am EDT
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PwrCor, Inc. is an advanced technology company focused on clean, renewable energy solutions while reducing the overall cost of energy for power users. Low-grade and ultra-low-grade heat (150-212F), which up until now could only be discarded and wasted, can be cost-effectively utilized to generate electrical power, providing cost savings and improving bottom line performance for corporations globally. The technology breakthrough exceeds cycle efficiencies of competing conventional power cycles and now enables PwrCor to exploit applications and markets, such as Data Centers, which previously could not effectively utilize their low temperature wasted heat, but now can economically convert that heat into useful power. Data centers house servers and similar equipment that use enormous amounts of electricity. In the process of powering the performance of the equipment, that electricity is subsequently transformed into large amounts of low-grade heat. In fact, more than 98 percent of electricity used to power the electronic equipment in data centers is shed as wasted low-grade heat energy. Furthermore, additional electricity is required to cool the data center electronics to keep the equipment operating safely and at optimal performance. PwrCor’s technology can now convert the vast amounts of data center heat to electricity positively effecting the bottom line of data center operations by reducing the amount of purchased electricity while reducing cooling requirements and its required power. Based on a proprietary thermodynamic cycle, PwrCor’s technology breakthrough achieves unparalleled thermal efficiencies for a closed cycle piston engine operating at low temperature. The increase in efficiency gives PwrCor an unprecedented competitive advantage. The efficiency advancements resulted as part of PwrCor’s ongoing research and development program with its exclusive technology partner, a leading internationally recognized research institute. The work performed, and validated, by the research institute on PwrCor’s power cycle is proprietary and exclusive to PwrCor. The breakthrough has resulted in an engineering enhancement that uniquely keeps heat energy in PwrCor’s thermodynamic cycle, boosting engine efficiency by 33-35%. The advancements afford a substantial increase of the potential maximum cycle efficiency of PwrCor’s proprietary power cycle while also realizing higher actual operating efficiency with its latest engine design. The design enhancements are expected to reduce the overall cost per kW output of the PwrCor engine, and will have little impact to the size of the engine, resulting in significantly greater power output within the same general footprint.
PwrCor, Inc. (PwrCor) is a cleantech energy technology company. The Company is developing advanced, novel solutions in the waste-heat-to-energy, geothermal, clean water, hydrogen production, and other markets. With its heat conversion technology, it is able to produce cost-effective mechanical or electric power from wasted heat-from low-grade heat in the 250 to 400 F range down to ultra-low temperatures in the 140 to 250 F range. PwrCor technology can be used to convert low levels of heat from any source, including industrial, geothermal, or solar, into sufficient mechanical power to drive reverse osmosis equipment wherever there is access to water, including sea water, without even having to produce electricity. PwrCor technology is also positioned to facilitate the Energy Transition initiative by creating power from heat generated in the production of Hydrogen and Ammonia, as well as from fuel cells, thereby reducing cost of operations.
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