"From Sustainable Cooling to Heat Recovery - Opportunities and Challenges for Waste Heat in Energy Systems" by Graeme Maidment FInstR's is now available for download here.  

You can register to attend the free live presentation followed by Q&A online on 2nd March here.

The presentation includes:

  • Details on how integration of heating and cooling systems can be used to achieve reduced emissions
    through smart local energy systems
  • Examples of how challenges were addressed, prototypes developed and practical issues
    dealt with – paving the way for wider roll out of solutions
  • An outline of the benefits both financial and environmental of waste heat recovery from Datacentres,
    Supermarkets and Underground trains
  • Information on the future potential of using heat from less conventional sources for decarbonisation of the
    built environment

 

 

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