cogeneration
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27 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Types of plants
- MicroCHP
- Trigeneration
- Combined heat and power district heating
- Industrial CHP
- Utility pressures versus self generated industrial
- Heat recovery steam generators
- Cogeneration using biomass
- Power cogeneration in the sugar and alcohol sector
- Advantages of the cogeneration using sugarcane bagasse
- Disadvantages of the cogeneration using sugarcane bagasse
- Comparison with a heat pump
- Distributed generation
- Thermal efficiency
- Costs
- History
- Cogeneration in Europe
- Cogeneration in the United Kingdom
- Cogeneration in the United States
- Applications in power generation systems
- Fossil
- Nuclear
- Renewable
- See also
- Further reading
- References
thumb|400px|Diagram comparing losses from conventional generation vs. cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.