Converting waste heat into clean electricity
50%
Approximately 50% of the world’s total energy consumption is lost as waste heat.
This is enough energy to power more than three billion households, or an amount equal to what the US, China, and India, consume annually.
3 bn
Energy Flow
Before Vortex
After Vortex
Vortex Power Systems is a revolutionary technology, converting low grade waste heat into clean electricity by generating and harnessing the power of an atmospheric vortex.
Using low grade waste heat recovered from thermal processes in industry, Vortex Power Systems technology generates and controls a freestanding atmospheric buoyancy vortex, and harnesses its power using a vortex turbine to create clean electricity.
HOw we can use this technology
The Vortex system works as an ‘add on’ to existing on-site infrastructure.
The VPS system takes warm water traditionally sent to cooling towers and utilises the otherwise waste low grade heat to create the right conditions for the formation of a naturally occurring phenomena, the water spout, converting heat into kinetic energy. The vortex simultaneously cools the warm water, as a cooling tower would, and returns it back to the process.
Reduced emissions
On site power
Reduced grid demand
Reduced cooling loads
The Impact
How much is the heat that is being wasted worth?
$237
Billion
The value of the potential energy lost in cooling towers every year
$150
Billion
The value of electricity generation possible from low grade waste heat per year
$50
Billion
The addressable value of electricity generation that Vortex's technology produce every year
Why Vortex Power Systems?
Clean energy generation
Retrofittable and connectable to existing infrastructure
Low capex cost = attractive economics
Effective with low quality waste heat (<80°C)
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