induces them to search for low-carbon alternatives for their process heat requirements, such as cogeneration or the employment … aspects. In this paper, the economic potential of using HTRs for cogeneration of industrial process heat and electricity is … project. A real option model for optimal investment timing (Pindyck, 1991) is adapted to HTRs for industrial cogeneration. The …

continuously at nominal conditions. Thus, energy supply systems integrating the technologies of cogeneration, absorption … account the legal constraints imposed on cogeneration systems in Spain, the optimization model is applied to design a system …

cogeneration or some heat-only generating technology, or a combination of the two. The deterministic model suggested is specified … variations in other parameters on the optimal timing to adopt a cogeneration system and the optimal capacity choice/mix. The firm …, if adopters are heterogeneous, this also has important implications on the optimal diffusion path of CHP technology. At …

The advent of small scale combined heat and power (CHP) systems has provided the opportunity for in-house power backup … utilize the CHP-produced thermal energy for cooling of PV-CHP system. This complexity has brought forth entirely new levels of … performance of over 50% available when a PV-CHP system also accounts for cooling. The dispatch strategy and simulation are to be …

A small mobile agricultural residue gasification unit for decentralized CHP (combined heat and power) production is … designed and constructed within the framework of the SMARt-CHP LIFE+ project. This unit applies the technology of biomass … gasification coupled with an ICE (internal combustion engine) based generator-set for CHP production. The unit is sized for a …

Legislative regulations in favor of combined heat and power (CHP) production have been implemented in many countries … separate production are replaced by an actual CHP plant. Some series of industrial and district heating CHP plants, under … varying operational conditions, are used as test cases. It is seen that some, but not all, CHP cases are exergetically …

cogeneration systems. The results show that the new CHP system could increase the heat utilization efficiency 10% compared to …Combined heat and power is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat. CHP plants produce energy in an … efficient way. A natural gas CHP system based on an internal combustion engine (ICE) is described, which has been set up at the …

A dynamic simulation of micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) systems that includes the transient behavior of the … optimum capacities of micro-CHP systems based on the number of apartment units being served, focusing on both economic and … energetic criteria. The capacity of internal combustion engine (ICE) based micro-CHP was assumed to be in the range 1–500 kW …

Combined heat and power (CHP) is an approach to generating both electricity and usable thermal energy than can offer … the technical potential for additional CHP is huge, yet questions still remain as to how much of this potential is … actually economical, and therefore likely to be adopted by end-users. This report evaluates the economic potential for CHP in …