Cogeneration: Considerations, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Economics

Cogeneration: Considerations, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Economics

February 28, 2019 | Nashville, TN

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This course is intended for those that would like to gain familiarity with the various issues and challenges that are faced when considering the possibility of installing a cogeneration facility.  Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source.  Even though the heat and power are fueled from a single source cogeneration is not a single technology, but is an integrated energy system.  It is the complexity of the system and the number of different types of entities with very different circumstances that can benefit from the choice to cogenerate that brings to light the many considerations, advantages, and possible disadvantages of installing cogeneration.   The number of options for any plant are many and the methodology is somewhat confusing, this is part of what we hope to break down though out this course.   These issues as well as economic considerations, efficiency, permitting and evaluations will be covered in the course.

Learning Outcomes

  • Outline cogeneration case studies
  • Explain cogeneration and its fundamentals
  • Review thermal load and electrical load balances
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cogeneration plants
  • Determine combustion, boiler and cycle efficiencies
  • Contrast the types of cogeneration plants
  • Examine plant considerations and the economics of building a cogeneration plant
  • Identify permitting and environmental issues

Credits

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Requirements for a Successful Completion of Program

Participants must sign in/out each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.

Instructional Methods

This program will use PowerPoint Presentations, group discussions, as well as active participation.

Agenda

Thursday, February 28, 2019

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. :: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. :: Course Timing

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. :: Group Luncheon

What is Cogeneration?

  • Generation of heat and generation of power
  • Not a combined cycle
  • Examples of cogeneration
  • First Law of Thermodynamics – covers generation of heat
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics – covers generation of power
  • Cogeneration combines these two processes

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cogeneration

  • Cogeneration is more efficient that generating each separately
  • Reduces dependence on the grid
  • Allows for “islanding”
  • Provides for power when the grid is down
  • Cogeneration is more complex
  • Requires a balance between thermal load and electrical load
  • Implies the need for more redundancy to “island”
  • Is not that much more efficient
  • Can be costly

Efficiency

  • What do we mean by efficiency?
    • Combustion efficiency
    • Boiler efficiency
    • Cycle efficiency
    • Gross and net plant heat rate
    • Cogeneration efficiency
    • Marginal heat rate
  • Pitfalls
    • HHV
    • Mixing up first law and second law comparisons
    • Example

Types of Cogeneration Plants

  • Boiler with back pressure steam turbine
  • Gas turbine with HRSG (with supplementary firing)
  • CFB with external heat exchanger
  • Trigeneration

Plant Considerations

  • Steam load and its variations
  • Electric load and its variations
  • Reliability
  • Back-up power
  • Plant needs
    • Manufacturing
    • Chemical plant
    • Refinery
    • Hospital
    • University
  • Hypothetical plant

Economics

  • Who owns the plant?
    • Industrial (balance sheet financing)
    • IPP (or 3rd party)
    • Municipal
    • Hospital
    • University
  • Cost of money
  • Plant size
  • Critical requirements
  • Self-generation vs sell to the grid

Permitting and Environmental Issues

  • New unit
  • Retrofit
  • Fuel switching
  • Electric generating unit or industrial

Setting-Up an Evaluation

  • Site conditions
  • Requirements
  • Feasibility
  • Narrowing down the choices

Case Studies

  • University
  • Chemical plant
  • Industrial park

Review

Instructor

Carl R. Bozzuto, Honorary Member, the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners

Carl Bozzuto has nearly 50 years of experience in combustion and boiler operations and research. He began his career as a research engineer, senior project engineer, manager, and director for Combustion Engineering Inc.  Carl was named vice president of process technology for the company, where he was responsible for the development and commercialization of new boiler and power plant technologies, including advanced cycles, ultra-supercritical boilers, alternative working fluids, fluid bed boilers, plant integration, and other plant component technology.  Serving recently as vice president of technology for the Power Environment Sector at Alstom Power Inc., he was responsible for the development and implementation of new technology for boiler and environmental products on a worldwide basis. Bozzuto holds 18 U.S. patents and membership in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Combustion Institute, the Source Evaluation Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).  He has authored more than 30 published technical papers and was editor-in-chief of the textbook Clean Combustion Technologies, published by Alstom Power in 2009.  Bozzuto has earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in management from the Hartford Graduate Center (RPI).

Location

Nashville Airport Marriott

600 Marriott Dr

Nashville, TN 37214

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Room Block Reserved For:

Nights of February 24 – 27, 2019

Room rate through EUCI:

$179.00 single or double plus applicable taxes
Make your reservations prior to February 4, 2019.

Venue Information

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/local-things-to-do/bnatn-nashville-airport-marriott/

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Cogeneration: Considerations, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Economics

February 28, 2019 | Nashville, TN
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