APPLICATIONS

There are many applications for the Marnoch technology due to its versatility and the readily available temperature differences, which are the source of “fuel”, in most areas of the globe.

SOLAR THERMAL: An acre of modern solar thermal collectors will provide the Btu equivalent of seven (7) Bbl of oil per day for example, in the Toronto Canada region. Although the conversion efficiency to electricity is low compared to fossil fuel generation, the source of the heat is free. The heat sink, which can be underground storage, can then use the rejected heat as a heat source to feed back through the system at night for round the clock generation. The system is totally scalable, so this application can be used from residential installations to large commercial grid feed-in systems.

SOLAR THERMAL CO-GENERATION: In a normal solar thermal heating application the heat flows directly to the home or building. With the Marnoch system incorporated, the heat will flow through the generation unit and the rejected heat then flows to the space to be heated, which acts as the heat sink. This provides the ultimate in co-generation.

THERMAL STORAGE: Unlike photovoltaic (P.V) generation, heat can be stored for future use. This type of application will be particularly useful in high solar radiation locales such as communities bordering deserts or other arid regions where the thermal energy received far exceeds the daily needs. Thermal storage facilities will provide reserve heat for round the clock generation. In any of the applications that use solar thermal collection, the storage facilities will serve to even out the daily generation and not be subject to daily sunlight variances.

WASTE HEAT: This technology is ideally suited for waste heat recovery and generation. Because there is not change of state, conversion efficiencies comparable to Rankine cycles can be obtained in many circumstances and locales.

GEOTHERMAL: In areas where ground temperatures are higher than normal but not high enough for steam extraction, this system can make use of the thermal differences obtainable under those circumstances without resulting to the use of harmful binary fluids that use change of state systems.