If there are two phrases we have come to know very well, they are 'environmental awareness' and 'credit crunch'. The world is looking for ways to decrease the emission of CO2 into the atmosphere, without incurring major costs in doing so. By increasing efficiencies up to about 90 per cent using well-established and mature technologies, cogeneration represents the best option for short-term reductions in CO2 emission levels.

A greater number of commercial, institutional, governmental and industrial energy users are seeing the advantages offered by small-scale cogeneration systems. This reference provides information to assist you in evaluating the feasibility and potential benefits of cogeneration for your facility.

The introduction of micro CHP – the simultaneous production of heat and power in a single building based on small energy conversion units such as Stirling and reciprocating engines or fuel cells – is of increasing political and public interest. This book introduces into micro CHP systems and technologies, and presents the results of the first such investigation carried out by four German research bodies.

As the technologies for small-scale cogeneration have advanced since the 1990s, this revised and updated book should show how a greater 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 an additional chapter on the US Combined Heat and Power Association, an organization which has the full assistance and attention of the US Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. Also 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.

Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.