CHP Advantages

Energy is precious, human beings is consuming the planet's natural resources to produce energy required for our needs, meantime industries are managing important expenses to dispose wastes which are considered dangerous. The energy purchasing and wastes disposal are an expensive process and both are on the top of the list of companies expenses. Cogeneration is the combination of electricity production (or mechanical) and needed heat coming from the same primary source. The CHP, using the same fuel for two different uses, aims for a more efficient use of primary energy with related important cost savings, especially in manufacturing processes where there is a strong coincidence between withdrawals and withdrawals electric heat. The first advantage of cogeneration is clearly economical: a properly sized cogeneration plant allows high energy savings (nearly 25-40%) with a payback on investment of around 36-50 months. The CHP allows for the First Principle yields n = (Ee + Et) / Ec equal to 70-85% which is significant when compared with 50-60% of new combined cycle plants, just for electricity production. In addition to benefit from a better use of fuel compared to conventional thermal generation, the use of a cogeneration plant of adequate size will increase the security of electricity supply and improve the quality, protecting against outages and voltage drops.