Hot showers for ethanol rich countries

Alfredo Behrens and Stefano Consonni

Energy, 1990, vol. 15, issue 9, 821-829

Abstract: In many developing countries, the hygiene-related demand for hot water will increase with urbanization and rising standards of living. Energy policies should be aimed at satisfying such demand with water-heating technologies compatible with the resource endowments of the country. Brazil is taken as an example of a country in which the widespread residential use of electricity for heating water is creating peaking problems. A shift to showers with water heated by burning alcohol will serve to alleviate this problem. Proven technology is described and tested.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(90)90121-H

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