The GREEN TURBINE^tm can be used in the market for small CHP applications e.g. domestic CHP. Another application is the small combined cycle market, the turbine can be used here as second stage after a micro gas turbine, fuel cell or even an internal combustion engine.

Total market volume for central heating in The Netherlands is 400.000 units/year. For the UK and Germany the numbers are 1 mln and 1,5 mln respectively. For the US total market volume for HVAC is about 6 mln/year. The market share for CHP units will depend strongly upon the price of these units and the possible savings on electricity for users of these units.

Savings on electricity for users in The Netherlands are estimated to average Euro 300 (prices for 2009). However, prices of electricity are sure to go up on a yearly basis. The payback time of a Micro CHP heater will be less than five years.

At this moment (2009) existing CHP units have a much higher price tag: Euro 10.000 - Euro 20.000. The HVAC- industry faces a challenge of manufacturing a competitively priced CHP unit.GREEN TURBINEtm offers the technology to achieve this.

Using Green Turbine in a hybrid car or a hydrogen/fuel cell car, can improve fuel efficiency with another 25%.

Hybrid Cars with Green Turbine can extend their range by 20-40% by capturing waste heat from engine exhaust and converting it to electricity

In hybrid or fuel cell cars about 10% of the waste heat can be converted to electricity. As waste heat is about 75% of the total energy input of a car, this 10% is substantial. It will boost total efficiency of a hybrid automobile between 20 - 40%

Solar thermal -Green Turbine can use heat energy from solar thermal collectors to generate electricity for residential and small commercial applications. The waste heat from Green Turbine can be used for space heating or tap water heating.

Waste heat is found in virtually all forms of energy production or the use of process heat. Waste heat can have a low temperature, in that case it is hard or impossible to convert it to elecricity. The only thing that can be done, is to use the heat for space heating or water heating. This is not always possible, due to economic reasons or too great a distance from producer to market

With temperature of 150 C or higher, we can use steam turbines to produce electricity. Hardly any other prime mover is capable of converting this low temperature heat to electric power. In using organic fluids instead of water, even lower temperature can be used, from about 90 C. Efficiency however, will be lower and there can be environmental concerns. Physics dictate that the conversion is the more efficient if the temperature is higher. But even low efficiencies can give a good internal rate of return, because not using waste heat means trowing away energy.

Green Turbine has been developed as a heat engine capable of running on low temperature fuel. Because of that, full advantage can be made in the application areas of waste heat, solar and Combined Cycle. Green Turbine can be used as a prime mover in solar applications and in applications that depend on the use of solid fuels. With other fuels, existing ICE engines have an efficiency advantage. Future developments of Green Turbine will include a version using high temperature combustion, better suited as prime mover.

For micro CHP applications, Green Turbine is a very strong competitor of Stirling engines and ICE engines.

In the market for micro waste heat utilization, there is hardly any competition. The same is true for the market of micro Combine Cycle applications.