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Clean Power Technologies Surpasses Efficiency Expectations on from Field Trials of its First Heat Recovery Generator

^{Published on 2010-11-09 15:05:20 - Market Wire}
 

NEWHAVEN, United Kingdom--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Clean Power Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: CPWE) (FRANKFURT: C1L) ("CPT" or the "Company"), a developer of unique systems to reduce emissions and fuel usage by harnessing wasted exhaust energy announced the results from testing an installed Heat Recovery Landfill (HR-L 300) unit at a landfill site in Oxfordshire, UK in June 2010. The unit produces electricity purely from the waste exhaust heat of a large combustion engine generator set operating on methane rich gas recovered from the decaying landfill.

Prior testing of the HR-L 300 unit on a large diesel engine in CPTa™s test facilities had previously produced electrical outputs equating to an additional 8% of the diesel engines operating power.

When installed on the landfill gas engine, the HR-L 300 produced an electrical power output of 26.7KW. With the landfill gas engine operating at 250KW, this equates to the CPT unit providing an additional 10.7% increase in electrical power for export to the grid, a dramatic increase from the company's internal testing of more than 20 percent.

CPT is currently preparing engineering upgrades to the HR-L unit to verify the performance with the landfill gas engine operating at 500KW, and expects that an output of 50KW can be comfortably achieved. Meanwhile the field trials of the HR-L unit are continuing with extended operation tests leading towards CPTa™s target of continuous automatic operation.

Mike Burns, Chief Technology Officer of CPT said, aWe are very pleased by these results a" the high exhaust temperatures and flow rates of the methane gas powered engines suit our HR-L unit perfectly. We are already working on further engineering design refinements to the heat exchanger and operating systems and now see 10% as the new baseline figure from which we will improve further with the next production units.a

CPT is developing and producing its heat recovery technology for further agreed installations on landfill gas powered generators at sites in the UK. The technology can also be applied to increase the efficiency of combustion engine generators fuelled by biogas, natural gas and diesel, as well as producing power from biomass fuelled burners and flares. The HR-L unit produces electricity without additional fuel or emissions and with no back pressure or other detrimental effects to the efficiency of the combustion engine on which it is installed.

About Clean Power Technologies

Clean Power Technologies is a specialist design engineering firm which has developed a range of systems to capture waste heat and convert it to electricity. The Company's proprietary technology significantly increases power generation efficiency through its Clean Energy Separation And Recovery (CESAR) system. CESAR can be installed on any heat source of sufficient temperature and generates a continuous source of clean electricity from wasted heat energy. The system provides significant commercial benefits while simultaneously reducing green house gas emissions and heat pollution. CESAR has a variety of power generation applications such increasing the efficiencies of landfill gas, natural gas, bio-gas and diesel powered gen-sets as well as generating power from biomass fuelled furnaces and gas flares.

For more information, please visit: [ www.cleanpowertechnologies.com ].