Concept: waste heat
Label (en): waste heat
Description (en): 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.
Also known as (en): lost heat
Label (es): Calor residual
Label (ca): Calor residual
Instance of: by-product
Subclass of: heat