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Combined Heat and Power

  • 29-07-2009 3:27pm
    #1
    truerenew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    Anyone here experience in CHP. I'm doing a bit of research in combining chp with wind energy and I need to pick someones brains,

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    SparkyLarks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭SparkyLarks


    What do you want to know

    PM me if you want


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    From the work I've done on them they can reduce traffic impacts greatly but I think thats down to they type of CHP plant ie MBM fuelled plant


  • #4
    thewools
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭thewools


    Done some work on CHP while on work placement a many a years ago - involving Microturbines etc.

    Now work for a big electrical heating company. :rolleyes:

    So if you have any questions I might be able to help out?


  • #5
    quietsailor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    truerenew wrote: »
    Anyone here experience in CHP. I'm doing a bit of research in combining chp with wind energy and I need to pick someones brains,

    Thanks.

    I worked on ships where the power generation (electrical and propulsion) were CHP - both waste exhaust heat and waste jacket heat. I ended up shoreside where i worked for a company that had both gas fuelled CHP plants > 2.5 MW and a 2.5 MWe biomass plant. If they're just general engineering question post them here and I'll try to answer.

    ** My background is in the O&M side, not design so I wouldn't have in depth answers 0n the design side


  • #6
    drunken_munky52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭drunken_munky52


    truerenew wrote: »
    Anyone here experience in CHP. I'm doing a bit of research in combining chp with wind energy and I need to pick someones brains,

    Thanks.

    Efficiency is the name of the game. Most of all the Carnot cycle efficiency. Overall efficiency in the system, broken into stage by stage. So you can it more efficienct by improving a property in an indiviual component.

    Basically its a way of utilising heat energy that would normally wasted in electrical generation. Not suitable for centralised power stations e.g. Moneypoint, but when used locally can heat water for local community distrubution.

    Did this in energy transfer and BER last year.

    Stupid idea maybe? Dont patent it behind my back if your like that Alexander Grhame Bell cheat, use the wind energy at night to pump the hot water over longer distances.


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