Combined Heat and Power Generation (CHP)

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This cogeneration project with a total capacity of 26 MW aims at the expanded use of the by-product “bagasse” obtained in the manufacture of sugar. It is planned to utilize waste products as fuel from the own production site but also from another sugar cane mill. The project will provide the steam and the electricity needed for the sugar production including adjoining houses. The surplus is feeded into the national network. The project is viewed as exemplary test for future CDM projects.

The project of the “ASKI” aims at installing a cogeneration plant, fueled with sewage digester gas originating from the central sewage plant at Ankara (Turkey). The project is unique in its kind and size within Turkey and demonstrates a reference object referring to economical and ecological optimised electricity supply. The project receives funding from the KfW.

In Pfaffenhofen, a town in southern Germany, a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant produces electricity from wood chips as well as from residual wood from sawmills, and in addition supplies the town with steam, district heat and cooling. The electricity it produces can cover the requirement of some 10,000 households. At the same time, the environmentally friendly power station supplies heat to up to 150 customers, among them a hospital, industrial plants, businesses, schools, the town hall and many households, via a 17 kilometre network. 80,000 tonnes of wood from the forests surrounding Pfaffenhofen, as well as wood waste from sawmills and the wood processing industry, replace about 24 million litres of fuel oil and spare the atmosphere some 65,000 tonnes of additional carbon dioxide annually. Pollutant emissions are kept at a low level by a flue gas treatment system installed downstream.

Combustion of high-sulphur lignite from the Central German mining area in an industrial power plant (combined heat and power) with thermal capacity of 19 MW within the emission limits of the Technical Clean Air Directive (TA-LUFT) and the 13th Federal Emissions Regulation (13. BImSchV). In addition to the legally required CO, SO2, NOx and dust measurements, measuring equipment for continuous recording of N2O under operating conditions has been installed. Expand…

The award for rational and eco-friendly use of natural gas was granted to the planner of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant supplying the University Hospital of Heidelberg, the German Cancer Research Institute and the new built Park for Technology Transfer III. The project aimed at reducing energy costs and emissions by modernising a heat plant by means of a contracting model introduced by the Harpen Energie Contracting, Dortmund.

An enterprise of the power industry established a central heating installation fired with wood chips in a development area. In this way the development area is supplied to eighty per cent with heat from the renewable energy source wood. Thus, not only CO2 emissions were avoided, but also dust emissions reduced. To this end a waste gas condensation plant was established in the heating installation. Expand…

On 1 April 2002 the Cogeneration Act went into effect and grants supplemental payments to operators of preferential cogeneration plants. Especially operators of new small cogeneration plants with a capacity up to 50 kW and of fuel cell units benefit from the new legislation.

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