CHP - COMBINED HEAT AND POWER
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An innovative technology that combines Cooling, Heat, and Power into a single revolutionary energy system.
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Our CHP Combined Cooling, Heat, and Power Clean Energy Systems are scalable standalone power plants that allows warehouses, distribution centers, data-centers, cold storage, manufacturing plants, grocery stores, and quick service fast-food restaurants to gain independence from the power grid and be supplied with an Always-On, Cost-Efficient, Resilient, Low Emissions power source.
CHP is high-efficiency, multi-energy (electrical & thermal) co-generation and tri-generation appliances that offer combined Cooling, Heat, and Power in a complete, all-in-one mechanical solution that saves energy costs, enables and augments renewables, improves the environment, and converts wasted and ambient heat into secure, clean, controllable energy.
CHP Clean Energy Systems are a dramatic new development in micropower generation, they are scalable intelligent energy systems designed to respond to the specific load requirements of cooling, heating, and electrical power for businesses.
Our CHP Clean Energy family of energy systems are an extension of decades-old, large-scale industrial CHP cogeneration technology. CHP systems are designed to supply the baseload within a building and are also designed to be a complement to solar instead of the use of expensive batteries.
An Explanation of CHP - Combined Heat and Power or Cogeneration
Combined Heat and Power (CHP), also known as Cogeneration makes more efficient use of the fuel we put into them, saving 15–40 percent of the energy in total. They're good for our pockets and good for the planet.
How does CHP work? A conventional power plant makes electricity by a fairly inefficient process. Fossil fuel such as oil, coal, or natural gas is burned in a giant furnace to release heat energy. The heat is used to boil water and make steam, the steam drives a turbine, the turbine drives a generator, and the generator makes electricity.
The trouble with this is that energy is wasted in every step of the process—sometimes quite spectacularly. For example, the water that's boiled into steam to drive the steam turbines has to be cooled back down using giant cooling towers in the open air, wasting huge amounts of energy—much of which disappears into thin air! A fuel-driven power plant has to work by heating and cooling—that's what the laws of physics say—but surely we don't have to waste quite so much energy in the process? Instead of letting heat escape uselessly up cooling towers, why not simply pipe it as hot water to businesses instead? That's essentially the idea behind CHP: to capture the heat that would normally be wasted in electricity generation and supply it to local buildings as well. Where a conventional power plant makes electricity and wastes the heat it makes as a byproduct, a CHP power plant makes both electricity and hot water and supplies both to a consumer. Cogeneration (the alternative name for CHP) simply means that electricity and heat are made at the same time.
How does Micro CHP (Combined Heat and Power) work?
Here (greatly simplified) are the basic components of a typical micro CHP unit. In practice, there are multiple heat exchangers, noise silencers, and other components that are deliberately omitted for the sake of clarity.
- Fuel (natural gas, oil, or biomass) is added at one end.
- The engine burns the fuel by ordinary combustion.
- An electricity generator is connected to and driven by the engine's driveshaft.
- Electricity is produced, which can be used for primary power or as an emergency supply.
- Exhaust gases from the engine flow through one or more heat exchangers, which remove most of their waste heat.
- A catalytic converter removes the pollution from the gases.
- The relatively clean exhaust emerges through a tailpipe or chimney.
- Cold water flowing into the heat exchanger picks up heat from the exhaust gas and exits at a much higher temperature. It can be piped directly into radiators or fed into a conventional central heating boiler for further heating.
The efficiency advantages of CHP speak for themselves, but there are environmental benefits too. Every ton of fossil fuel we avoid burning stops carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and reduces, just a little bit, the problem of global warming. Burning fewer fossil fuels also reduces air pollution and related problems such as water pollution and acid rain. Replacing huge power plants with more CHP plants that are much smaller makes us less dependent on the centralized energy network and major system failures and outages and blackouts. Just like conventional power plants, CHP plants can use virtually any fuel from natural gas, propane, oil, biomass, methane gas produced in landfill sites, or power made by burning trash in municipal incinerators.
