ERA funded this new tech that produces electricity, or someother like Eavor Loop geothermal system, to produce electricity on-site adjacent AXE CTI.
Boundary Energy Inc. is an Alberta based company that has developed an Ultra Low Temperature ORC system that can operate at lower temperatures than other commercially available ORC technologies. The Boundary ORC systems can produce electricity efficiently using ultra-low-grade thermal sources with temperatures as low as 90 C. Also, due to the cycles ability to work with ultra-low evaporator temperatures, the Boundary cycle can store thermal energy in simple insulated tanks in the form of 90-95C hot water – essentially providing ‘Thermal Batteries’ able to store and then send thermal energy to the ORC generators in the form of hot water – on demand.
The storage fluid can be any form of brine water, salt water or water glycol mixtures. This unique feature eliminates the requirement to use a given source of thermal energy in real-time or as available, effectively decoupling the collection and storage of thermal energy from the use of that energy to produce electricity. This opens the door to combining numerous sources of thermal energy and heat that would otherwise not be economical. Inexpensive sources such as solar collector troughs; thermal windmills; waste heat from industrial processes; legacy geothermal heat from O+G wells – can all be ‘stacked’ on a single site allowing each source to provide a portion of the thermal energy – as and when it is available – to the overall process. The Boundary ORC system then simply draws ‘energy’ as and when needed from the stored hot water reservoirs to meet the system’s evaporator thermal needs to produce power via the ORC system.
This demonstration project will effectively aim to prove the ability of the Boundary ORC System to produce power from ultra-low grade thermal sources operating at scale in a real-world environment. The demonstration project will also aim to prove the effectiveness of decoupling the collection and storage of 95C thermal energy in the form of hot water to be used on demand by the Boundary ORC System.
Hope it works in real world industrial scale.