Reaction Engines’ heat exchangers to help US decarbonisation efforts
Reaction Engines has been chosen by the US Department of Energy (DOE) alongside Ohio’s Echogen Power Systems to help decarbonise industrial processes and achieve net zero goals.
The Oxfordshire company will provide its microtube heat exchanger technology to enable Echogen and its partners to develop a high-efficiency, pilot-scale heat pump.
This pump would be able to heat air to over 300°C from ambient temperatures using supercritical (highly compressed) CO2.
It has the potential to reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by more than 90 per cent and energy intensity by more than 50 per cent relative to natural gas-fired heaters.
The combined Reaction-Echogen team has been awarded $3,000,000 over three years for the project.
Reaction Engines was also picked by BAE Systems recently to investigate use of its heat exchanger technology for waste heat recovery and exhaust cooling on naval vessels.
