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[That laboratory is the one that has taken the lead on developing ]
[a waste heat recovery system that, as you know, ]
[all resulted in the first ecomagination certified product ]
[that the Munich Research Center of General Electric has developed.]
[And I brought with me a couple of the scientists from the lab.]
[May I start here with Christina.]
[Give us a very quick introduction to what your work is here in this lab.]
[[Christina] I'm part of the Alternative Energy lab ]
[and I'm also working on environmentally friendly energy generation systems.]
[For example, with carbon dioxide capture or for energy storage]
[where we have multiple sources for low-grade heat.]
[[Dr. Carlos Hartel] So Christina has an interest in waste heat recovery]
[because she may work on systems that produce a lot of waste heat ]
[that's today just being rejected to the atmosphere.]
[We want to use that a lot better in the future in the interest of the customers.]
[These two gentlemen here, let me start with Matt, and this is Thomas.]
[They are working very intensely on waste heat recovery.]
[Matt, give me a quick update on what you do in this space.]
[[Matt] Well, starting with waste heat recovery,]
[I guess I work, more or less, exclusively on waste heat recovery, ]
[mostly for applications where there's a hot exhaust gas coming out of a power station, ]
[and we need to do more with it to turn it into electricity.]
[But also for other applications where there is industrial waste heat]
[and other kinds of heat that's not being used at low temperatures;]
[that includes geothermal heat, for example.]
[So there's a wide range of different applications that we work on]
[to apply waste heat recovery technology.]
[[Dr. Carlos Hartel] Hey, thank you, Matt.]
[And Thomas, you are leading their program, ]
[specifically the one that is now the--well it was the basis for ]
[the product we are talking about today, and really what this blog is here about.]
[Now when did that project start, ]
[and how long have you engaged with that activity here at the research labs?]
[[Thomas] Well, I've been engaged in the whole project basically since I joined GE, ]
[roughly 4½ years ago, and it was that time,]
[so 3 to 4 years ago when we initiated the first project related to waste recovery.]
[At that time the focus was on reciprocating engine waste recovery.]
[We are still working on that project, but it has evolved to a much bigger project right now, ]
[and the outcome is seen with this ecomagination certification right now.]
