Waste Heat Potential and Power Generation: A Comprehensive Review

The capability of power generation from the exhaust heat from industries, has been a topic of raising significance and interest in the modern era, today because the ideas of sustainable development, conservation of resources, eradication of global warming and carbon emission and growing along with the industrial growth and development. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review related to the Industrial heat potential in India, technologies and strategies discovered to exploit the industrial waste heat and generation of power or electricity from the waste heat of industries. This review paper also includes the study of the industries which vent waste heat in large amount, the energy consumption in various industries and other commercial sectors and examples of some countries which have used some techniques to utilize the waste heat. It covers the study of waste heat potential of various industrial and commercial sectors in India, which includes Glass sector and Cement sector etc. Recovery of waste heat and its utilization in electricity generation can help to deduce the amount of carbon emitted by industries, ultimately reducing the global warming and apart from all energy demands can be meet or fulfilled.