Feasibility study of wood-fired cogeneration at a Wood Products Industrial Park, Belington, WV. Phase II
Customarily, electricity is generated in a utility power plant while thermal energy is generated in a heating/cooling plant; the electricity produced at the power plant is transmitted to the heating/cooling plant to power equipments. These two separate systems waste vast amounts of heat and result in individual efficiencies of about 35%. Cogeneration is the sequential production of power (electrical or mechanical) and thermal energy (process steam, hot/chilled water) from a single power source; the reject heat of one process issued as input into the subsequent process. Cogeneration increases the efficiency of these stand-alone systems by producing these two products sequentially at one location using a small additional amount of fuel, rendering the system efficiency greater than 70%. This report discusses cogeneration technologies as applied to wood fuel fired system.
- Research Organization:
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL (United States). Environmental Research Center
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 236251
- Report Number(s):
- Z--330; ON: DE96010392
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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