HERTEN, Germany, October 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Electricity from waste heat - without the release of additional carbon
dioxide. This conserves resources and saves money, benefits both climate and
environment and provides fresh stimulus to the entire energy market. And it
is exactly what has now been achieved by a German research company which had
originally occupied itself with an entirely different but equally
revolutionary technical process - generating drinking water from the air.
"Our technology opens up a resource which has so far been unexploited -
the moisture contained in the earth's atmosphere," is how Hubert Hamm, CEO of
Aqua Society GmbH in Herten, Germany, explains his invention. "This process
was originally used in the mining industry to cool the air below ground,
where it produced condensation. We have now simply reversed the process: our
equipment sucks in large amounts of air, cools it to the condensation point
and in this way generates water which is then filtered and mineralized."
This means that pure drinking water can be produced in any location where
refrigeration or air conditioning is available. However, in order to reduce
the energy costs involved in this water production the engineers at Aqua
Society continued their researches and have now developed a system with which
the waste heat created by the cooling process can be converted to
electricity. Previously a large part of the heat energy created was simply
allowed to escape into the air, which those who have a fridge or air
conditioner experience for themselves every day.
State-subsidized environmentally sustainable energy generation
The project aimed at generating CO2-free power, which was subsidized by
funds from the North Rhine-Westphalia state government and the EU Regional
Development Fund, uses special low-pressure expansion apparatus which makes
it financially viable to exploit waste heat with a temperature of below
100degreesC - something which had so far been regarded as technically
impossible.
In addition to industrial processes and power stations, possible areas of
application are any and all facilities which generate waste heat. There is
particular interest in the possibility of recovering additional electricity
from the waste heat produced by combined heat and power plants and biogas
facilities.
Aqua Society GmbH was founded in 2004 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Aqua Society Inc., whose shares are traded at the German stock exchange in
Frankfurt (WKN: A0DPH0, ISIN: USO3841C1009) and New York (OTC:AQAS.OB).
Press contact:
Aqua Society GmbH
Dr. Volker Schulz
Press and PR Officer
Zukunftszentrum Herten
Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 9-13
45699 Herten
Tel.: +49(0)2366-30-52-54
E-Mail: presse@aqua-society.com
Web: http://www.aqua-society.com
Aqua Society GmbH
