Unique conversations
Paul Glanville is Senior R&D Director - Heat & Power, Hydrogen Technology Center at GTI Energy. Tim Kingston is Senior Director, Research & Engineering GTI Energy. Dan LeFevers is Director, State and Consumer Programs at GTI Energy.
GTI Energy embraces a vision for integrated, low-carbon, low-cost energy systems that leverage gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency to meet the urgent challenges presented by climate change and global energy access. To fully comprehend these words, there is nothing like a visit to its eighteen acres of facilities close to Chicago, to take in the depth and breadth of what goes on at these specialized labs with equipment for design, testing, and analysis of advanced energy technologies. PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick and Editor-In-Chief Lori Burkhart were fortunate to pass inside the gates of GTI Energy to view the future of energy. We engaged with scientists and engineers to better understand several of their projects.
Paul Glanville: Now, we'll talk a little bit about burners. Much of the natural gas that's delivered to buildings is for cooking, space heating, or water heating.
As such, a lot of our work at GTI Energy pertains to burners that natural gas utility customers have in their homes. Burners can be designed to be ultra-low emission.
They can be designed to be compact by using metallic fibers. If you use high-temperature alloys, you can wrap these burners and get a high capacity and low emissions. We do a lot of work designing and working with our partners to design burners for advanced equipment, some of the thermally driven heat pumps.