First industrial Cheng Cycle for Sunkist fruit processing plant
A Cheng Cycle was chosen for the 12-MW facility at Sunkist Growers' Ontario, California, plant, according to Lee Kosla, vice president of IPT Corporation because it is particularly attractive for food processing operations, where greatly fluctuating steam demands typically occur. These same conditions, he says, tend not to favor the use of conventional gas-turbine cogeneration. Sunkist's cogeneration facility is leased by IPT's wholly owned subsidiary, Ontario Cogeneration Inc. The subsidiary arranged financing for the installation of the plant and will operate it. ''If for some reason the facility can't deliver any energy, we're not obliged to pay'', says Vincent Benandillo, energy coordinator for Sunkist. So IPT has the incentive to make the system work.
- OSTI ID:
- 5627790
- Journal Information:
- Cogeneration; (United States), Vol. 2:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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