RE: FW: GAS-L: Drying

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

At 10:26 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, you wrote:

Hi Andries;

>By the way: you did not answer my question:
>
>> Considered too radical by whom?
>> 
>with respect to your statement:
>
>> We are only allowed to fine tune what we have at present -- even putting
>> an economizer in the stack is considered to "radical".
>> 
>Who is holding whom back if financial conditions are met?

For large installations -- such as the one you are at -- it is impractical
as flu gas temp is low.

For the small systems - -where they do have stack gasses of 400F or greater
-- the concept of using a refrigerant system to reclaim energy is a little
to imaginative for them.

If I was still "up-north" I might play with the idea of going to such
people, extracting the extra energy available there as electrical power --
and selling it back to them.

The problem with that scenario is that the "North" has artificially low
prices for power -- so it may not be profitable.

When the price of power gets up to what we pay for it here in Belize -- 21
cents US per kwh -- then it will be profitable to stop throwing that heat
to the skies.

But I have this suspicion that industrialized world will self destruct
through massive social upheavals before we see a price of 21 cents per kwh
in those areas -- and plummet us back into a dark ages -- where electrical
power will no longer be a requirement of existence.

So -- it is only a scientific curiosity -- at best -- that makes me suggest
this possibility.

I seriously doubt -- even under the best conditions of our present
existence -- that you will be seeing waste heat retrieval from stacks - to
electrical power.

Peter Singfield / Belize

>best regards,
>Andries
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