Efficiency Improvements through Combined Heat and Power for On-site Distributed Generation Technologies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13052/dgaej2156-3306.2232Abstract
With the evolution of electricity market transformation, there is a
renewed interest in distributed generation (DG)—that has a promising
role for mitigating technical, regulatory, and environmental constraints
in the electricity sector. These bene fits are further enhanced with the
ability of such DG in heat recovery applications in which the waste heat
is used to produce hot water, heat building space, drive absorption cool-
ing, and supply other thermal energy needs in a commercial building
or industrial process. This article identi fies the ef ficiency gain and other
environmental and economical bene fits of using fossil fuel based DG
under combined heat and power (CHP) application. Based on emission
factors and operational performance of existing commercially available
DG under both separate heat and power (SHP) and CHP applications,
economic and environmental performance of such DG is analyzed and
compared under different loading conditions characterized by different
heat to power (HPR) ratios
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