CHEMICAL REACTION CYCLES FOR THE RECOVERY OF LOW-LEVEL THERMAL ENERGY

Abstract

At present, much thermal energy exhausted from industrial processes has been unrecoverably lost. In this paper a new method, a chemical heat pump is proposed for recovering such low-level energy by use of chemical reaction cycles. Through this method the low-level energy can be converted to higher and more useful energy. Thermodynamical study of this method and the practical example, Triangle Process 1, 2 and 3 are described.