The Cleantech Show #023: Micro combined heat and power (CHP) - Interview with Attilio Demicheli, Katrix
The Cleantech Show #023 (MP3 - 14MB - 36min)
Interview with Attilio Demicheli, Katrix
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) as we have discussed previously on the show with companies like Grid-X Power has a significant role to play in reducing the emissions profile of the built environment and industry. Predominantly this is a result of bringing waste heat from the typically remote electricity generation process to provide space and water heating or heat for industrial processes at the point of demand.
Many of these applications for CHP have typically been focused at the 1 - 2 MW and upwards development range or at small scales when differential pricing of fuel and electricty prices allow utilising natural gas combustion.
Enter micro-CHP and my guest today on the show Attilio Demicheli, CEO of Katrix, a company with a solution to this CHP barrier. On the show we discuss how micro-CHP promises to be a key enabler for mass market uptake of distributed
(non-centralised), renewable energy solutions in the sub 50 kW power range, otherwise known as micro-generation.
Katrix MicroGen’s core technology is its fluid expanders, which are devices that generate direct rotational power from the expansion of appropriate gases or liqu
ids, in an organic rankine cycle (see graphic below - turbine replaced by Katrix expander). This technology can be utilised in any situation where there is significant low level heat such as biomass combustion or as Katrix believe in solar thermal applications.
Katrix are currently in a capital raising cycle and seeking development partners for the pilot production phase of the technology.
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Nick Bruse
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