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ElectraTherm in Action
Boiler Application in Michigan
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Kalamazoo Valley Community College, located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, installed the Green Machine in early 2010 to produce emission-free electricity from the system's boiler on campus.
The Green Machine, pioneered and manufactured by ElectraTherm, is the most economically-viable technology for capturing waste heat to produce electricity in the global marketplace. The technology enables customers to substantially increase energy efficiency, reduce consumption of costly fuel and decrease air emissions. Employing the more robust twin-screw expander in place of costly turbine technology results in low maintenance outlay over the life of the machine, and its 5x5 footprint makes the Machine modular and scalable.
The Midwest is an ideal location for recovered energy generation given the region's factories, power plants, paper and steel mills, food processing facilities and other heavy industry. Michigan alone produces enough waste heat to power thousands of Green Machines, according to data in a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Approximately two-thirds of the fuel burned to generate power in the United States, and up to half of industrial energy consumption is lost. The deployment of an energy efficient, emissions-free generator at Kalamazoo Community College will lower costs and increase efficiency on site.
While ElectraTherm has shipped Green Machines for applications employing solar thermal, industrial, boiler, and geothermal heat, the demonstration unit unveiled today at the community college's Michigan Technical Education Center is the first Green Machine installed in Michigan and the Midwest.
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Hawaii Solar Farm
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In late-2009, ElectraTherm installed two Heat to Power generating systems to create electrical power from solar thermal heat at the Holaniku Solar Farm on Hawaii’s Big Island. Keahole Solar Power, LLC (KSP) purchased the ElectraTherm Green Machines to increase system efficiencies and create additional power at the solar farm in a dual-power generation process.
KSP learned of ElectraTherm’s technology while working to create an efficient, modular and quickly deployed solar thermal template for mass adoption around the world. Existing processes at Holaniku use 3.8 acres of solar collectors that feed two 4,000 gallon tanks. These tanks supply the ElectraTherm Green Machines with hot water through an array of insulated pipes, valves, sensors and pumps. The ElectraTherm Green Machines turn the heat into fuel-free, clean electrical power.
The Holaniku Solar Farm is the first commercial solar thermal application of ElectraTherm’s organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technology powered by its patented Twin Screw Expander. The two ElectraTherm Green Machines are now creating clean electricity and improving system efficiencies at Holaniku. Compared to other forms of renewable energy technology, ElectraTherm offers one of the fastest payback periods in the industry, with maintenance costs of under a penny per kilowatt hour.
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Southern Methodist University
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In May 2008, ElectraTherm successfully installed its first field unit, a 50 kW Green Machine, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The demonstration site was hosted by Gulf Coast Green Energy, ElectraTherm’s dealer in the gulf coast region, with assistance and cooperation from the world-renowned SMU Geothermal Lab, and the Campus Planning and Plant Operations Department. The demonstration project ran for over a year and provided important field validation of ElectraTherm’s technology as well as giving hundreds of interested individuals from a variety of industries and several states and countries the opportunity to see this cutting edge technology in action.
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