PwrCor, Inc. announces a significant technology breakthrough that exceeds cycle efficiencies of conventional power cycles. The advancements afford a substantial increase of the potential maximum cycle efficiency of PwrCor’s proprietary power cycle while also realizing higher actual operating efficiency with its latest engine design. The design enhancements are expected to reduce the overall cost per kW output of the PwrCor engine, and will have little impact to the size of the engine, resulting in significantly greater power output within the same general footprint. The new design enhancements are scientifically important and have significant practical implications. There is a thermodynamic limit on the efficiency of an engine, known as Carnot efficiency. These advances allow the projected efficiency of the PwrCor engine to achieve about a one-third improvement, bringing the engine to between 72% and 85% of the thermodynamic limit, depending upon operating conditions. This represents an unprecedented level as compared to other technologies. The practical implication is that the power output of PwrCor’s technology should be able to increase by the same one-third " with no change in input. This is a very significant development.
PwrCor, Inc. (PwrCor) is a cleantech energy technology company. The Company is developing advanced, novel solutions in the waste-heat-to-energy, geothermal, clean water, hydrogen production, and other markets. With its heat conversion technology, it is able to produce cost-effective mechanical or electric power from wasted heat-from low-grade heat in the 250 to 400 F range down to ultra-low temperatures in the 140 to 250 F range. PwrCor technology can be used to convert low levels of heat from any source, including industrial, geothermal, or solar, into sufficient mechanical power to drive reverse osmosis equipment wherever there is access to water, including sea water, without even having to produce electricity. PwrCor technology is also positioned to facilitate the Energy Transition initiative by creating power from heat generated in the production of Hydrogen and Ammonia, as well as from fuel cells, thereby reducing cost of operations.