GT2 Energia, in accordance with its vocation to innovate, initiated a project to develop a robot for boiler and chimney inspection. This project is being implemented by a joint effort with the Laborat...
A FAPERJ publicou hoje o resultado do edital de inovação tecnológica, contemplando 81 projetos.
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Since the crisis of supply in the electricity sector, which occurred in 2001, some positive consequences could be found, such as the search for greater diversification of the Brazilian energy matrix and the concern with the more efficient use of existing energy. An index capable of measuring this increase in energy efficiency can be verified in the 2009 National Energy Balance, which permits the evaluation of the energy sectors´ performance through the comparison of the renewable energy and the non-renewable energy. The finding was that in the last decade, the energy productivity has increased due to technological evolutions of the equipments and, also, the use of more efficient processes, relating to more efficient inputs, as well as in regards to its use. The Brazilian energy matrix has always had the advantage of hydroelectric power; however, faced with the aspiration of source diversity, projects and incentives contributed to the other power generating processes having more participation in the Brazilian energy planning. The energy derived from thermal power plants, in 2005, corresponded to 12.6% of the Domestic Energy Supply, while in 2008, it represented 15.4%. During 2008, the installed capacity of the electric energy power plants had a rise of 4 GW, of which 24% corresponded to hydraulic plants and 71 % to thermal.
In 2003, the Turbines and Thermopower Group, the GT2, was created. Based at the ITUC premises and bound to the Department of Mechanics of PUC-Rio, the group had as objective, to collaborate with leading research and educational programs for the energy sector, acting fully in the projects performed in the areas of thermal systems performance evaluation, diagnosis of thermopower plants and its components, software development, technical advice, consulting in electric energy generation and energy efficiency. Due to the maturity achieved over the years, in 2009, GT2 Energia was founded. The knowledge acquired along the various projects is now at service of the Brazilian electricity sector, provided by highly qualified personnel. GT2 Energia acts in the thermopower sector since the beginning, in research and development projects, as well as in other services provided. And, as the company notices the increasing involvement of thermal energy, which was its main motivator, it increasingly encourages the improvement of its team members in this sector. The thermopower plants are based in thermal cycles administered by the laws of Thermodynamics, as with any other thermal process. Therefore, the GT2 Energia´s area of operation does not restrict itself only to the process of generating thermal power; it also covers the more diverse processes that present thermal character, such as the gas and oil industries, sugar as alcohol, industrial processes in general, of co-generation, gasification, etc. |
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