Creating Energy Through Revolving Doors
Monday, December 15, 2008 11:01In perhaps one of the easiest, and most transferable technologies, that I have seen in a while, Boon Edam has recently installed a revolving door generation product that I would say is ripe for China.
According to the Boon Edam press release, installing the door inside a train station with a capacity of 8500:
The TQM revolving door will help primarily to save the carefully generated and conserved energy. A calculation was made for this particular situation that indicated an energy saving of around 4600 kWh per year, a considerable saving compared to a conventional sliding entrance.
It is an inexpensive piece of equipment, that is probably at a similar cost structure to an revolving that is automatic, and in my mind that means that commercial and retail developers could find these very attractive.
With higher levels of traffic, the amount of power could be increased, and surely with technology advances that would come through manufacturing at scale the efficiency rating would increase as well.
Tracie says:
December 31st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Clarification:the door is saving the 4600kwh because it is a revolving door and the exchange of heated air with the outside air is minimized. This is considerable vs. a sliding door or swing door. The energy generated from human traffic is used to light the LED lighting in the door.