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Heating and Cooling
Effective use of geothermal for electricity generation requires water temperatures of over 150°C to drive turbines. Alternatively, the temperature difference between the surface and a ground source can be used. Due to the ground being more resistant to seasonal heat changes than the air, it can act as a heat sink/ source with a geothermal…
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Sustainable / Stable
Geothermal provides a reliable source of energy as compared to other renewable resources such as wind and solar power. This is because the resource is always available to be tapped into, unlike with wind or solar energy.
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Huge Potential
Worldwide energy consumption is currently around 15 terawatts, which is far from the total potential energy available from geothermal sources. While we can’t currently use most reservoirs there is a hope that the number of exploitable geothermal resources will increase with ongoing research and development in the industry. It is currently estimated that geothermal power…
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Renewable
Geothermal energy is a source of renewable energy that will last until the Earth is destroyed by the sun in around 5 billion years. The hot reservoirs within the Earth are naturally replenished, making it both renewable and sustainable.
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Environmentally Friendly
Geothermal energy is more environmentally friendly than conventional fuel sources such as coal and other fossil fuels. In addition, the carbon footprint of a geothermal power plant is low. While there is some pollution associated with geothermal energy, this is relatively minimal when compared to fossil fuels.
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Thermal Engineering Industries and Applications
Thermal engineering also involves understanding the economics involved in the processes and components surrounding heat generation, transfer, and control. Professional thermal engineers must make sure the solutions they provide not only solve the system, process, and component issues involved, but are also cost-effective. Some of the applications in which thermal engineering is applied include: A…
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Thermal Engineering and Heat Transfer Design
Processing facilities are plants in which a raw resource of some type is converted into a form that is usable. These facilities include plastic manufacturing plants, oil refineries, and power plants, among others. There are numerous systems and components that comprise these facilities in which heat transfer is the governing factor. The level of heat…
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Importance of Thermal Engineering
Thermal Engineering is a sub-specialty of Mechanical Engineering that solves problems involving heat energy and the transference of this energy between different mediums and into other types of energy. Thermal Engineering involves the design of processes and systems that convert energy generated from different thermal sources into mechanical, chemical, or electrical energy based on the application at…
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What is thermal engineering all about?
Thermal engineering concerns with the field of thermodynamics or the study of energy transfers. As a thermal engineering student, you will study heating and cooling processes; and the conversion of heat into various energies including mechanical, chemical and electrical energy. This is a discipline which finds many applications in our daily life. For example, it…
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AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS
1 Summer Air-conditioning System with VentilationAir and Zero By-pass Factor The schematic arrangement of summer air-conditioning system with ventilation without by-pass factor is shown in Fig. 20.33. The outside air flows through the damper and mixes with the recirculated air. The mixed air then passes through the filter to remove dirt and dust and then through…
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