Cogeneration generation

This is particularly important when considering the effect that combined heat and power generation (cogeneration) has on utility waste. 

Combined heat and power cogeneration). Combined heat and power generation can have a very significant effect on the generation of utility waste. However, great care must be taken to assess the effects on the correct basis. 

Includes cogenerators, small power producers, and all other sources, except electric utiUties which produce electricity for self-use or for deUvery to the grid. The generation values for nonutiUties represent gross generation rather than net generation (net of station use). 

Conventional fossil fuel-fired power plants, nuclear power faciUties, cogeneration systems, and combined-cycle faciUties all have one key feature in common some type of steam generator is employed to produce steam. Except for simple-cycle cogeneration faciUties, the steam is used to drive one or... 

Another example of a topping cycle cogeneration system is one based on recovering the thermal energy exhausting from a gas turbine/generator. 

Industrial use of cogeneration leads to small, dispersed electric-power-generation installations—an alternative to complete reliance on large central power plants. Because of the relatively snort distances over which thermal energy can be transported, process-heat generation is characteristically an on-site process, with or without cogeneration. 

Cogeneration systems will not match the varying power and heat demands at all times for most applications. Thus, an industrial cogeneration systems output frequently must be supplemented by the separate on-site generation of heat or the purchase of utility-supplied elec tric power. If the on-site electric power demand is relatively low, an alternative option is to match the cogeneration system to the heat load and contract for the sale of excess electricity to the local utihty grid. 

Typical Systems All cogeneration systems involve the operation of a heat engine for the production or mechanical work hich, in nearly all cases, is used to di ive an electric generator. The commonest heat-engine types appropriate for topping-cycle cogeneration systems are ... 

Cogeneration is the production of two useful forms of energy in a single energy conversion process. For example, a gas turbine may produce both rotational energy for an electric generator and heat for a building. 

The introduction of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century opened up an entirely new approach to combined heat and power. Rather than using the same fluid for the heat and power process as was the case with hot air and steam processes, the tremendous waste heat generated by the internal combustion process can easily be transformed into useful heat. Cogeneration applications using stationary engines were common in Europe prior to World War I and remain quite popular because the heat is relatively... 

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