(Ebook) Small-Scale Cogeneration Handbook by Bernard F. Kolanowski ISBN 9780824741228, 9780824747558, 9780881734195, 9780881734225, 0824741226, 0881734195, 0824747550, 0881734225

(Ebook) Small-Scale Cogeneration Handbook by Bernard F. Kolanowski ISBN 9780824741228, 9780824747558, 9780881734195, 9780881734225, 0824741226, 0881734195, 0824747550, 0881734225

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.