COGENCanada CHP Association

Dr. Herb Saravanamuttoo 55 + years experience with gas turbines with manufacturers and users. The main Co-author of the world’s most widely used book on gas turbines. A new gas turbine lab has opened at Carleton U where he taught for years. Joe Zanyk Was top Combined Cycle Cogeneration technical person for Dow Chemical world wide the firm with far more Combined Cycle Cogen experience than any other. Was responsible for design and operation of major cogen plants & helped Dow and Destec Engineer the Wabash Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant demonstrating a key clean coal technology. There are many other outstanding COGENCanada people.

Mission: COGENCanada is a federally incorp., not-for-profit association promoting cogeneration & sustainable industrial development. We help energy users, electric generators, Industrial Development people and cogen suppliers.



Using Recovered Heat to Displace Fossil Fuel

Basic of Cogeneration: The energy savings when more than one energy need is served by the burning of one fuel In Cogeneration-based Eco-Industrial Networks, heat rejected by the Cogeneration system and other processes in the Network is used by other processes in the network. This provides Environmental & Economic Benefits – Clean Energy as well as other benefits as explained

USING RECOVERED HEAT TO DISPLACE FOSSIL FUEL
Cogenerated Electricity is as Green as wind or solar but delivers electricity whether or not the wind is blowing or the sun is shining

Single purpose thermal electric power plants reject some 50% of the fuel heat to water bodies or the atmosphere. Cogeneration systems recover this heat which is rejected by the electric power cycle and use it to displace fossil fuel

There is a Need for an Incentive To Buy Cogenerated Electricity, particularly at night, thus to facilitate making recovered heat available for use in industrial processes or for space heating to displace fossil fuel day and night