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Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production

07/25/2011
Volume 12, Issue 4
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  • Features

    • Cogeneration growth in Europe – smaller systems have better prospects
      What are the real prospects for cogeneration markets in Europe? Here, Michael Brown starts with the uncomfortable truth that overall markets have ‘flatlined’ (or worse) in recent years, but suggests that prospects for smaller, packaged CHP systems for homes and buildings, at least, look better for the future.
    • Innovative on-site power with engine-based CHP
      The development of new models of energy supply for commercial developments, using efficient engine-based technology, is gathering pace in Asia. Here, Gatot Prawiro describes the use of on-site power and trigeneration schemes in Singapore and Jakarta.
    • Trigeneration undercuts conventional energy with PV for carbon emissions
      Careful analysis suggests that, for most parts of the US, buildings using a high efficiency, gas-fired trigeneration system can emit less carbon dioxide than those using conventional energy supplies and a solar photovoltaic installation – writes Wes Livingston of Power Partners.
    • The role of Micro CHP within a decarbonizing energy system
      Natural gas-fuelled micro CHP will play a key role in the transitioning of the UK’s electricity supply system towards low- and even zero-carbon generation over the next few decades. Initially to help provide security of supply and later to help optimize domestic heating systems, writes Jeremy Harrison.
    • Next generation CHP to balance intermittent production from renewables
      Conventional but inflexible power stations are poorly suited to balancing the intermittent power output of wind farms and large solar photovoltaic arrays. Far better is advanced CHP, although this must be carefully controlled and operated. Anders N Andersen and Peter Sorknæs report from Denmark.
    • Improving the cogeneration cycle for India's sugar industry
      India’s sugar industry is a major user of steam turbine cogeneration technology – and that technology is improving to maximize performance both during the production season and during the off season, when power exports are the priority. Triveni Turbine’s Engineering & Product Development Team explain.
    • India airport industry considers dedicated power production
      Many airports have substantial on-site power and heat and/or cooling loads that are a good match for a local cogeneration plant. A debate is now underway in India and elsewhere in Asia about the merits of locating plants at new and refurbished airports, as Raghavendra Verma reports from New Delhi.
    • District cooling reaches Hong Kong
      The government of Hong Kong’s major project to redevelop the old Kai Tak Airport site is to incorporate district cooling technology. This will be the first use of DC in the territory but, already, more projects may be lined-up to follow, as David Hayes reports.
    • Small packages the widening appeal of small-scale CHP
      The European market for small-scale packaged CHP has expanded in recent years, due to the popularity of no-capital finance models, the growing use of biofuels and ever-increasing pressure on organizations to both cut energy costs and ‘green’ their operations. Dr Julian Packer writes.

  • Project Profile

    • Flexible cogeneration for chemicals plant
      Support from the government of Flanders in Belgium has helped the Essent-owned Inesco cogeneration plant to successfully supply reliable steam to an Ineos site, while also exporting electricity to the North-West European power market, as J Th G M Eurlings writes.

  • Regulars

    • Balancing intermittent generation – the role for cogeneration
      The supply of heat is largely ignored in the energy and climate change debate, even though heat represents nearly half the world’s final energy consumption.
    • Smart grid and smart generation make a smart team
      As a result of recent economic stimulus investments directed at smart grid technology, there has been a great deal of action in terms of upgrading systems to include the information and communications networks that serve as the backbone of a smart grid.
    • WADE Pages
      WADE Participates in the World Energy Council (WEC) Committee for Cleaner Fossil Fuels (CFFS) Meeting
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