• Waste heat recovery engine being tested by Panasonic

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    Ester Co Ltd which is a venture team of Panasonic is testing a Waste Heat Recovery Stirring Engine which will generate electricity from waste heat in a plant at the Nara plant in Japan. The company will be testing the reliability of the engine at the plant in operation in the aim of commercializing the engine by 2011. This engine is being developed in collaboration with National Maritime Research Institute since 2005. It has achieved an efficiency of 15% with the heat generated from industrial furnaces such as drying, blast and heat-treating furnaces, power generating facilities and the like. This time the company is planning to attach the engine to the chimney flue of the high-pressure air distribution equipment in Panasonic Nara Plant. If this test results are reliable, then it is planning to develop a power generating engine with a capacity of about 5 to 10Kw within 2009 in the prospect of commercialization and aims to release the same by 201
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