Recycling Wasted Heat and Power Could Clear the Air (Forbes)
ArcelorMittal Steel USA is finding an uncommon way to beat the competition: It is cutting energy consumption at one of its steel plants in Chicago by re-using heat to make electricity. It says that it is saving $100 million a year by creating an extra 75 MWe of emissions-free electricity.
It’s not just steel manufacturers that are able to use such combined heat and power technologies. It’s also oil and gas processing businesses, as well as iron, chemical and cement makers. Scientists are saying that the recycling of wasted energy is a productive tool that both improves energy efficiency and minimizes the release of greenhouse emissions.
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