response that can be called power-to-mobility and power-to-heat. Collectively power-to-X schemes which use surplus power fall under the heading of flexibility...

Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Cogeneration...

A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On...

In thermodynamics, heat is energy in transfer between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings by modes other than thermodynamic work and transfer of...

temperature. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool CPUs, GPUs, and some chipsets and RAM modules. Heat sinks are used with other high-power semiconductor devices...

A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e...

the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power generation), heat energy (e.g. geothermal), chemical energy, electric potential and...

A heat pipe is a heat-transfer device that employs phase transition to transfer heat between two solid interfaces. At the hot interface of a heat pipe...

Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical...

control than localized boilers. According to some research, district heating with combined heat and power (CHPDH) is the cheapest method of cutting carbon...

the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a...

A heat engine is a system that converts heat to usable energy, particularly mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work. While originally...

engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the working fluid) by exposing it to different temperatures...

A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes...

The Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company (MLH&P) was a utility company operating the electric and gas distribution monopoly in the area of Montreal,...

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824), analysed on BibNum...

Look up heat, HEAT, or warmth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heat is energy in transfer to or from a thermodynamic system by mechanisms other than...

light is converted to heat (solar thermal energy), which drives a heat engine (usually a steam turbine) connected to an electrical power generator or powers...

hour after shutdown, the decay heat will be about 1.5% of the previous core power. After a day, the decay heat falls to 0.4%, and after a week, it will...

Thermoelectric generators could be used in power plants and factories to convert waste heat into additional electrical power and in automobiles as automotive thermoelectric...

potential to mitigate global warming profitably. This work is usually done in the form of combined heat and power (also called cogeneration) or waste heat recovery...

generally used for fulfilling heat requirements up to 300 °C (600 °F) / 20 bar (300 psi) pressure in industries, and for electric power production. Two categories...

Geothermal power is considered to be a sustainable, renewable source of energy because the heat extraction is small compared with the Earth's heat content...

A heat pump is a device that consumes energy (usually electricity) to transfer heat from a cold heat sink to a hot heat sink. Specifically, the heat pump...

A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.: 2911  Definitions vary but are similar. A heat wave...

Notes: Most switched-mode power supplies within the powered device will lose another 10 to 25% of the available power to heat. More stringent cable specification...

cycles are power cycles and heat pump cycles. Power cycles are cycles which convert some heat input into a mechanical work output, while heat pump cycles...

then explains how we can obtain motive power, i.e., "work", by carrying a certain quantity of heat from body A to body B. It also acts as a cooler and hence...

include heat or cold produced with heat pumps from off-peak, lower cost electric power, a practice called peak shaving; heat from combined heat and power (CHP)...

pollution-free energy. Early designs used these focused rays to heat water and used the resulting steam to power a turbine. Newer designs using liquid sodium have...