Other Applications

FLARING

Gas Flare

The World Bank estimates that over 150 billion cubic meters (or 5,3 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas are flared or vented annually, an amount equivalent to more than 25 percent of the United States’ gas consumption or 30 percent of the European Union’s gas consumption per year. Flaring gas has a global impact on climate change by adding about 400 million tons of CO2 in annual emissions. Fewer than 20 countries account for more than 70 percent of gas flaring and venting. And just four countries together flare about 70 billion cubic meters of associated gas.

In 2002, the World Bank launched the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR), a public-private partnership to supports the efforts of oil producing countries and companies to increase the use of associated natural gas and thus reduce flaring and venting, which wastes valuable resources and damages the environment.
The GGFR partners include: Algeria (Sonatrach), Angola (Sonangol), Azerbaijan, Cameroon (SNH), Ecuador (PetroEcuador), Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Khanty-Mansijsysk (Russia), Mexico (SENER), Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, the United States (DOE) and Uzbekistan; BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ENI, ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil, Maersk Oil & Gas, Pemex, Qatar Petroleum, Shell, Statoil, TOTAL; European Union, the World Bank Group; Associated partner: Wärtsilä.

HYBRID PROPULSION & GENERATOR

The Carnot engine might be a good candidate for the vehicule propulsion. However, due to power and torque issue, this device is better used as a constant speed engine. I could be in a hybrid electric propulsion or "base load" utility generation where constant power output is actually desirable.

DATA CENTERS

The worldwide data center electric consumption grew by 56% between 2005 and 2010. Data centers are used to process e-mail, conduct Web searches and handle online shopping as well as banking transactions and corporate sales reports.  Moreover, more services that depend on data centers, like cloud computing and streaming of music and movies, became popular.
The power used by servers in data centers represented about 0.5% of world electricity consumption in 2005. When cooling and auxiliary infrastructure were included, that figure was about 1 percent. The worldwide demand for data center power in 2005 was equivalent to the output of about 17 1,000-megawatt power plants.
The Carnot engine can generate electricity out of the waste heat produce by this data center, it can also be used to cool these installations down.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE ENERGY

Many industries produce waste heat that could be used by a Carnot engine such as steel plants, incinerators (heat exhaust), cement factory, etc.