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waste heat

Waste heat is by necessity produced both by machines that do work and in other processes that use energy, for example in a refrigerator warming the room air or a combustion engine releasing heat into the environment.
Class type of: heat Q288706

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
by-product
Subclass of
heat[2]
By-product of
work[4]
Different from
electronic waste[3]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Climate change[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en lost heat en waste heat ar حرارة مهدرة cs odpadní teplo de Abwärme es Calor residual fa گرمای زاید fi hukkalämpö fi jätelämpö fi tähdelämpö fr chaleur fatale industrielle fr chaleur de récupération fr chaleur excédentaire fr chaleur fatale fr chaleur recyclée ja 廃熱 ko 폐열 nl restwarmte ro căldură evacuată ru отработанное тепло
🔖 Identifiers · 10
GND ID
4000301-2
OpenAlex ID
C184235594
Freebase ID
/m/0d5rdb
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
spillvarme
Harper's tag
waste-heat
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
waste-heat
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
184235594
NL CR AUT ID
ph1268131
Quora topic ID
Waste-Heat
YSO ID
8285

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🔗 Connections
By-product of 1
work
Different from 1
electronic waste
Instance of 1
by-product
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Climate change
Subclass of 1
heat
← Different from 1
electronic waste
← Has effect 1
processor power dissipation
← Uses 1
seasonal thermal energy storage
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Summary

waste heat is a by-product[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → electronic waste
    By-product of → work
    Subclass of → heat
    Instance of → by-product
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 8285, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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