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.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : History of Cogeneration
Chapter 3 : Regulatory Actions
Chapter 4 : Uses of Cogeneration
Chapter 5 : Applying Cogeneration to a Facility
Chapter 6 : Sizing the Cogenerator
Chapter 7 : Logistics of Installation
Chapter 8 : Permitting Requirements
Chapter 9 : Operation & Maintenance
Chapter 10 : Pitfalls of Cogeneration
Chapter 11 : Financing Cogeneration Projects
Chapter 12 : Case Histories
Chapter 13 : Small-scale Cogeneration Manufacturers
Chapter 14 : Do-it-yourself Cogeneration
Chapter 15 : Green Energy vs : Cogeneration
Chapter 16 : Microturbines and Cogenration
Chapter 17 : Absorber-Chillers in Cogeneration
Chapter 18 : Desiccant Drying and Cogeneration
Chapter 19 : Fuel Cells
Chapter 20 : Distributed Generation
Chapter 21 : National Combined Heat & Power Association
Chapter 22 : Cogeneration in Europe
Chapter 23 : The Organic Rankine Cycle
Chapter 24 : Pyrolysis
Chapter 25 : Available Technologies
Appendices
Appendix I : Typical Shared-Savings Agreement
Appendix II : Energy Conversion Tables
Appendix III : Heat Loss in Swimming Pools—Graphs
Appendix IV : Typical Small-scale Cogeneration Energy Production
Appendix V : Typical Utility Rate Schedules—Gas and Electricity
Appendix VI : Working a Cogeneration Project—A Model
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