This book presents a comprehensive, integrated treatment of cogeneration technologies and systems. Also called combined heat and power (CHP), cogeneration is the use of a power station to deliver two or more useful forms of energy (e.g. generating electricity and heat at the same time). All conventional, fuel-based plants generate heat as by-product, which is often wasted. Cogeneration captures part of this heat for delivery to consumers. The book gives a tour of the available cogeneration technologies and their features. It provides plenty of instructive examples of cogeneration projects to illustrate key concepts, and also covers the relevant regulatory and legal frameworks. It is an ideal text/reference for anyone working in power systems and energy engineering.
Topics covered include:
Benefits of cogeneration
Cogeneration technologies
Electrical engineering aspects
Applications of cogeneration
Fuels for cogeneration systems
Thermodynamic analysis
Environmental impacts of cogeneration
Reliability and availability
Economic analysis of cogeneration systems
Regulatory and legal frameworks
Selection, integration and operation of cogeneration systems
Simulation and optimisation
Synthesis, design and operation
Examples of cogeneration projects
Research and development of cogeneration
Summary and conclusions