Cogeneration can now turn up to 90% of the fuel burned into usable energy – compared to just 52% of the fuel typically burned in a local power plant and in a separate existing hot water heating system. The fifth edition of this comprehensive reference provides a wealth of information to assist you in evaluating the feasibility and potential benefits of cogeneration for your facility. Covered are recent regulatory developments and their impact, system selection and sizing, permitting requirements, operation and maintenance, financing, technology basics, micro turbines, absorption chillers, distributed generation, and numerous case histories.
This new edition is updated with new material and comes with access to a useful program that can help determine the economic value of applying cogeneration for your clients’ benefit.
1. Introduction
2. History of Cogeneration
3. Regulatory Actions
4. Uses of Cogeneration
5. Applying Cogeneration to a Facility
6. Sizing the Cogenerator
7. Logistics of Installation
8. Permitting Requirements
9. Operation & Maintenance
10. Pitfalls of Cogeneration
11. Financing Cogeneration Projects
12. Case Histories
13. Small-scale Cogeneration Manufacturers
14. Do-it-yourself Cogeneration
15. Green Energy vs. Cogeneration
16. Microturbines and Cogenration
17. Absorber-Chillers in Cogeneration
18. Desiccant Drying and Cogeneration
19. Fuel Cells
20. Distributed Generation
21. National Combined Heat & Power Association
22. Cogeneration in Europe
23. The Organic Rankine Cycle
24. Pyrolysis
25. Available Technologies
Appendices
I. Typical Shared-Savings Agreement
II. Energy Conversion Tables
III. Heat Loss in Swimming Pools—Graphs
IV. Typical Small-scale Cogeneration Energy Production
V. Typical Utility Rate Schedules—Gas and Electricity
VI. Working a Cogeneration Project—A Model
Biography
Bernard Kolanowski is a mechanical engineer having received his BSc degree from The Pennsylvania State University. His career spans the application of engineered products to various industries seeking solutions. Cogeneration is his current focus, applying systems both large and small to various commercial and industrial establishments, utilizing engines, microturbines, and gas turbines. He currently resides in Carlsbad, California.
