Turbochargers: leading companies?
…2003. Electrification is cited as an opportunity? Across the peer group, many of the leading companies in turbochargers are expanding to supply pumps and compressors for heat pumps to provide…
Floating LNG: do the costs work?
…risk is ‘uptime’. This file contains our workings; including cost-estimates across 17-categories, such as compressors, heat-exchangers, vessel-costs, et al. Costs are compared for smaller-scale and onshore plants in later tabs….
Midstream opportunities in the energy transition?
…Underlying components include storage tanks, pumps and compressors. (9) Mitigating methane leaks remains a crucial priority, especially in gas gathering lines. The best opportunities are captured in our report on…
Grid connection sizes: residential, commercial and industrial?
…200kTpa chlor-alkali plants, 1MTpa cement plants, 1MTpa CCS compressors or 100,000 vehicle per year auto plants. Finally we come to the true monsters, with grid connections above 100MW, such as…
Semiconductors: outlook in energy transition?
…electric motors c35% more efficiently, which matters for electrifying compressors, for heat pumps, and as motors absorb 15% of all useful global energy. Semis are also crucial for battery charging…
Energy transition from first principles?
…vehicles, LED lighting, VFDs, CHPs, insulation, methane mitigation. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/03/23/eroei-energy-return-on-energy-invested/ Energetic industries from first principles: the internet, industrial gases, hydrogen, ammonia, steel, battery recycling, trucks, transport, compressors. The new age of electricity from first principles: transmission,…
Density of gases: by pressure and temperature?
The density of gases matters in turbines, compressors, for energy transport and energy storage. Hence this data-file models the density of gases from first principles, using the Ideal Gas Equations…
Hot potassium carbonate CCS: energy economics?
…is to re-capture the energy of exhaust gas compression. This is achieved by re-expanding these compressed and CO2-depleted gases back across a turbine (which may directly drive the input compressors;…
Boltzmann energy overview?
…x volume (in m3) = number of molecules x absolute temperature (in Kelvin) x the Boltzmann constant (in Joules/Kelvin). We find ourselves using these physics when modelling gas turbines, compressors,…
Fans and blowers: costs and energy consumption?
…captured, which could cost $75/ton and 300-900kWh/ton of electricity just circulating air through the plant. As a comparison, compressors typically step up gas pressures from 2-100x depending on the application,…