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    CETY Installing Waste Heat Generator to Create On-Site Electricity for Stanley Black & Decker Tool Plant

    Oct. 13, 2023
    The CETY-installed heat recovery generator will convert the waste heat from the burn-off furnace into electricity to be utilized at the Martin facility
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    U.S. tool manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker will convert waste heat into electricity to assist in electrifying operations at its plant in Martin, Tennessee.

    The company finalized a contract with Clean Energy Technologies Inc. (CETY) and RPG Energy Group. CETY will design, build and install a clean cycle waste heat recovery system at the plant where Stanley Black & Decker makes compressors and power tools.

    The CETY-installed heat recovery generator will convert the waste heat from the burn-off furnace into electricity to be utilized at the Martin facility. RPG will work directly with Stanley Black & Decker on developing the project in support of the toolmaker’s sustainability and carbon reduction goals.

    The system utilizes a heat conversion process known as organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). An organic working fluid and the generator will turn waste heat from the furnace engine into additional electricity.

    “Our Clean Cycle ORC will bring environmental and sustainable benefits to Stanley Black & Decker’s facility,” CETY CEO Kam Mahdi said in a statement.

    Traditionally, the waste heat produced at the manufacturing site was vented into the atmosphere. Stanley Black & Decker operates more than 50 manufacturing sites in the U.S.

    Stanley Black & Decker has vowed to aim for a 42% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 using 2022 as a baseline comparison, according to reports.

    The company’s roots as a tool manufacturer date back to the 1840s. The Stanley Works company merged with Black & Decker and DeWalt in 2010.

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

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    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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