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Waste-heat power (steam Rankine): Overview

Turning hot factory and turbine exhaust into free electricity

What this tile covers Hot exhaust raising steam for a turbine in cement, steel, glass and acid plants, and in combined-cycle plants.

Key facts

Heat gradeMedium to high

Included from the reference tables

  • Combined cycle (HRSG + steam turbine)
  • WHR boilers with steam Rankine
  • Steam bottoming in large engines

Linked to the material world

Cem CementSt SteelH2SO4 Sulphuric acid

Also in Heat to power and cogeneration

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