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Sean Casten
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Turners Falls, MA 01376
www.turbosteam.com
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So how do you make the economics of DG work?
4. Chase efficiency
– CHP systems recover “free heat” to realize added value, bump efficiency
up.
However, while CHP is typically understood to take a “power-
first” approach to generate free heat…
Fuel Heat
Power
Recovery
Generator
Device
Waste Heat
Cost of Power
Generation
Fuel Cost
…there are many opportunities to take an inverse, “heat-first”
approach to generate free electricity.
Fuel Power
Heat
Recovery
Generator
Device
Waste Heat
Cost of Heat
Generation
Electric Cost
Properly designing “heat-first” CHP is a near-exact inversion
of “power-first” approaches.
Feed water
Fuel Pressure
Reducing
Valve (PRV) Low pressure steam process load
PRV
Turbine-generators deliver the same pressure drop as a PRV –
but produce useful electricity in the process.
Electricity
Non-U.S.
• 17 countries
>10,000 kW • 63 installations
5001 – 10000 kW • 35,900 kW
1001 – 5000 kW
501 – 1000 kW
1 – 500 kW
A closer look at heat-first economics.
“All-In Cost of Generated Heat”
Cost of delivered
thermal energy
after power
recovery