Small-Scale Cogeneration Handbook: Fourth Edition

Newly updated in its fourth edition, this book includes a new chapter on the Organic Rankine Cycle and its use in various industries, and also a new chapter on pyrolysis, illustrating how to turn solid or liquid material into a gas using pyrolysis in commercially available technology. Also included is material on the advent of the fuel cell in cogeneration plus the all the latest cogeneration technologies. This comprehensive reference provides a wealth of information to assist in evaluating the feasibility and potential benefits of cogeneration for your facility. Covered in detail are 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.