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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2006
ELECTRATHERM MAKES ELECTRICITY FROM WASTE HEAT
CARSON CITY, NEVADA – While media pundits and leaders around the world articulate the problems
of rising energy prices and global warming, and while captains of industry scramble for answers, there's
one new U.S. company that has developed a solution. ElectraTherm, Inc. currently operates equipment
which captures industrial waste heat and converts it into electricity.
"ET's waste heat generator makes electricity without burning additional fuel
and creates no emissions," says ElectraTherm's founder and president,
Richard Langson. "We have a quintessential green solution for businesses of
all sizes because it works financially as well."
Every industrial process, from melting steel to baking bread in commercial
ovens, dumps energy in the form of excess heat into the atmosphere. For a
hundred years business owners and mechanical engineers have sought uses
for this left over energy. "There's a point at which its temperature is too low
to drive steam turbines or boil water, so billions of BTUs simply go to waste,"
Langson points out. Since September 2005, ET's prototype has employed
190 degree water to vaporize a low condensing liquid in a closed system. It
then uses the pressure from that expanding gas to spin a turbine like device
that drives its generator. "It's kind of like taking the steam from a tea kettle
and using it to spin a propeller."
"Other companies have built waste heat generators (WHGs) but they either
take up too much space, require temperatures in excess of 650 degrees, or the cost per kilowatt is three
times our cost." Until now, initial capital outlay and payback period have been too great for all but a few
businesses to install WHGs. "At today's energy prices, ElectraTherm's 20, 40, and 100 kilowatt units
will pay for themselves out of energy cost savings in less than 3 years. Our 500 kilowatt machine, on the
drawing board now, promises even greater ROI."
ElectraTherm has built its WHG on a skid so forklifts can place units local to heat sources, right on the
plant floor, saving piping costs and reducing heat loss. Even the larger units have a footprint less than
40 square feet. With a cost per kilowatt under $2,000.00, ET has found wide scale interest in its
equipment.
"Companies in Europe and Asia are taking our solution very seriously. We have conditional orders for
2100 units now." In addition to stand alone units, ET's new Power Compounder will attach directly to
pre-existing gensets and boost electrical output by 10%. Langson explains, "For countries that are
trading carbon credits and have committed to lower pollution levels, gaining 10% more electricity from
the same volume of fuel becomes a critical advantage. That's a 10% improvement in the ratio of
emissions to power, a big win." Much of the world's electricity comes from "gensets" which are engines
that burn oil or natural gas in order to drive electric generators.
So, when will we see ElectraTherm generators in the market place? Langson smiles. We anticipate first
commercial delivery this fall.
 to ElectraTherm's Newsroom
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