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- Title
GE Picks Riegel Plant For Study On Use Of Solar Heat.
- Abstract
The article reports on the decision of General Electric (GE) Co. to use a $258,000 federal grant to design a solar heating system at LaFrance Division of Riegel Textile Corp. in South Carolina. The system can supply 190 degree Fahrenheit water to a dye vat at LaFrance and will be the Phase I study on solar energy applications to heat industrial process water. It states that the company's supplementation of industrial process heat with energy sources is being encouraged by the national energy program of the Energy Research and Development Administration. B. J. Tharpe, manager of advanced energy programs for GE's space division at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, said that LaFrance was chosen for the experimentation study because of its large use of oil to heat process water.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; GENERAL Electric Co.; GRANTS in aid (Public finance); SOLAR heating equipment; RIEGEL Textile Corp.; TEXTILE factories; VAT dyes; ENERGY research; THARPE, B. J.
- Publication
Textile Chemist & Colorist, 1976, Vol 8, Issue 8, p6
- ISSN
0040-490X
- Publication type
Article