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Researchers create a high-temperature device that produces electricity from industrial waste heat
June 13, 2017 by Denis Paiste

MIT researchers have demonstrated a liquid thermoelectric device with a molten compound of tin and sulfur that can efficiently convert waste heat to electricity, opening the way to affordably transforming waste heat to energy conversion at …more

Glass and steel makers produce large amounts of wasted heat energy at high temperatures, but solid-state thermoelectric devices that convert heat to electricity either don't operate at high enough temperatures or cost so much that their use is limited to special applications such as spacecraft. MIT researchers have developed a liquid thermoelectric device with a molten compound of tin and sulfur that can efficiently convert waste heat to electricity, opening the way to affordably transforming waste heat to power at high temperatures.


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Offline Joe Wooten

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It's a long process from lab demonstrations to commercial product. Even if this application proves out to be commercially viable, it will take at least a decade for it to make it to the market. Building a small one in a lab is a completely different process than building big units in a factory. There is a lot of engineering work to be done yet.