This 5th-edition manual can be used by the manager as well as the engineer or attorney to understand rate structure and regulations, legal rights of cogenerators, engineering and cogeneration selection processes, and operational considerations. It discusses the financial feasibility of cogeneration with methods for evaluating economic performance, and energy savings and details the steps power contracting and procurement. The authors include a helpful analysis of today's competitive power marketplace as well as guidelines for transmission access, pricing, and terms.

Cogeneration can now turn up to 90% of the fuel burned into usable energy – compared to just 52% of the fuel typically burned in a local power plant and in a separate existing hot water heating system. The fifth edition of this comprehensive reference provides a wealth of information to assist you in evaluating the feasibility and potential benefits of cogeneration for your facility. Covered 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 numerous case histories. This new edition is updated with new material and comes with access to a useful program that can help determine the economic value of applying cogeneration for your clients’ benefit.

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.

Covers the aspects of power plant design, operation, and maintenance. This title discusses cycle optimization and reliability, technical details on sizing, plant layout, fuel selection, types of drives, and performance characteristics of the major components in a cogeneration or combined cycle power plant.