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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

Micro combined heat and power, micro-CHP, μCHP or mCHP is an extension of the idea of cogeneration to the single/multi family home or small office building...

produces heat. Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in countries of the former USSR as the Joule–Lenz law, states that the power of heating...

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...

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...

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...

The Brisbane Heat are an Australian professional franchise men's and women's cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition...

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...

A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather : 2911  generally considered to be at least five consecutive...

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)...

practical to transport heat energy over long distances, unlike electricity or fuel energy. The largest proportions of total waste heat are from power stations...

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...

The power loss factor β describes the loss of electrical power in CHP systems with a variable power-to-heat ratio when an increasing heat flow is extracted...