A Generator That Burns Waste Oil - Not Fuel
Dave Greenfield | Date: 02-12-10 | Comments: 0
- A new generator will burn polluting byproducts, saving the environment and cutting down your power bill.
The world has gotten itself into quite the energy fix: Our
near-exclusive dependence on fossil fuels has created a situation in which we
cannot live without them, but in which we cannot continue consuming them at the
voracious rate we have been.
The Phoenix Power Group and Cyclone Power Technologies are
developing an electric generator system that has the potential not only to lessen
our dependence on oil, but also to help us utilize alternative resources more
efficiently. The power generator will use a Cyclone engine to turn waste oil
back into usable fuel.
Americans produce over 1.4 billion gallons of waste fuel
each year. Not only is waste fuel a plentiful resource, but eliminating it will
profoundly improve the environment. According to the EPA, the oil from just one
oil change can contaminate 1 million gallons of water, or a year’s supply for
as many as 50 people. Now consider that 500 million gallons of that waste fuel
is not properly disposed of: This creates a pressing problem for millions of
people.
Phoenix’s clean
generator would address this growing concern, as well as put energy dollars
back into consumers’ pockets as they kick back about 50kW of electricity into
the power grid. “Our goal is to bring these environmentally beneficial products
to businesses, like oil change shops and fleet services providers, later this
year,” says Thomas V. Thillen, Phoenix’s
president.
At the heart of the generator is the highly efficient
Cyclone engine, which is able to combust fuel in an external chamber at lower
temperatures than traditional engines. This does not allow nitrogen oxide and
other harmful emissions to form. The engine itself does not use oil, but
instead has a water-lubricated system that is able to turn waste oil into clean
energy.
Besides generators, Cyclone is continuing research to
develop engines for cars, trucks, trains and ships that have the potential to
reduce our oil dependency and create millions of new jobs.
