As the technologies for small-scale cogeneration have advanced over the last decade, this newly revised and updated book will show how a greter number of commercial, institutional, and industrial energy users are seeing the advantages offered by these highly efficient systems. This comprehensive reference provides a wealth of information to assist you in evaluating the feasibility and potential benefits of cogeneration for your facility. Included is a new chapter on the US Combined Heat & Power Association, an organization which has the full assistance and attention of the US Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. Also newly included is criteria for a model which will assist in finding, researching, analyzing, quoting and implementing a typical cogeneration project. Covered in detail 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 case histories.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : History of Cogeneration
Chapter 3 : Regulatory Actions
Chapter 4 : Uses of Cogeneration
Chapter 5 : Applying Cogeneration
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 Cogeneration
Chapter 17 : Absorber Chiller in Cogeneration
Chapter 18 : Distributed Generation
Chapter 19 : US Combined Heat & Power Association
Chapter 20 : Cogeneration in Europe
Appendix I : Typical Shared Savings Agreement
Appendix II : Energy Conversion Table
Appendix III : Heat Loss in Swimming Pools-Graphs
Appendix IV : Qualified Facility Letter to the DOE
Appendix V : Typical Small-Scale Cogenerator Production
Appendix VI : Electric and Gas Utility Pricing Schedules
Appendix VII : Working a Cogeneration Project - A Model
Index
