Muhaimin Iqbal
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The Potential Behind the Law of Conservation of Energy

Advanced Renewable

Mon , 13 May 2024 21:25 WIB

Since high school we have learned about the law of conservation of energy or also called the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, which reads more or less "In an isolated system, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, energy just changes form from one form of energy to another." Unfortunately, this law, which is believed to be true, has not been widely used for what is implied in it.

Among what is implied is the use of energy after changing form from previous energy. If diesel or gasoline fuel is burned in an internal combustion engine, for example, only a small portion of around 25%-30% is used as mechanical energy (for vehicles) or electricity (for power generation), where does most of this energy go?

Most of it becomes heat energy, the majority of which is still wasted. In the engine compartment of your car there is tremendous heat energy, and this is also true in the environment of power plants and factories. The energy wasted is so large that it is considered a liability, heat that must be cooled, even though heat is essentially a form of energy which is an incarnation of the majority of energy which was originally in the form of petrol, diesel, etc.

Why has this abundant heat energy not been utilized? One of them is because of our perception that energy sources are cheap, will always be there and are fine - not damaging the environment, etc., so we will not bother to capture this heat energy and reuse it.

The problem now is that fossil energy, which we thought would always be available, is apparently not sustainable, its price continues to increase, and its availability can easily be disrupted by global geopolitical turmoil. While there is, we have to save on its use because of the large CO2 emissions released by this fossil energy.

However, to be able to capture and utilize the heat energy that has been wasted above requires a machine that is practical, easy to use and effective in capturing heat. For this reason, we created a heat energy conversion machine into electricity which we call ORISYS, an abbreviation for Organic Rankine System.

Even though the main output of ORISYS is electricity, if ORISYS is used with our previous series of reactors which we call PETX (Power and Emission To X, https://lnkd.in/gke6jRxn), this electricity can then be stored back into the form of the previous fuels such as petrol, diesel, LPG and even hydrogen.

Because energy cannot be destroyed nor created and can only change form, if we master on these changes in the form of energy and the technologies it requires, we will always find endless sources of energy in many different forms.