cogeneration
cogeneration
Definition
co·gen·er·a·tion (kō′jen′ər ā′s̸hən)
noun
the process of generating electricity and steam from the same power plant
cogeneration
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- promote: Canada has a new association to promote cogeneration nationally.
- support: Despite general policies supporting cogeneration and decentralized power production, these practical barriers seem hard to remove.
Preposition: in
- industry: POTENTIAL FOR RECYCLED ENERGY AND CHP There are still prospects for cogeneration in the steel industry.
Adjective modifier
- on-site: Perhaps less understood is the potential for on-site cogeneration as part of this growth.
- advanced: Advanced cogeneration is the re-routing of blast furnace gas or coke oven gas from the alternative energy boilers through industrial gas turbines.
Modifies a noun
- plant: The design of heat recovery steam generators for use in cogeneration plants presents a series of challenges.
- unit: The facility is a 7.5 MW central cogeneration unit that has the option of being expanded to over 22 MW.
- capacity: Our current cogeneration capacity reduces CO 2 emissions by approximately 9 million metric tons annually.
- system: Connection to the public supply: Cogeneration systems are most often designed to operate in parallel mode.
- facility: Our cogeneration facilities, in 30 locations worldwide, have enough capacity to power close to 7 million European households.
- project: Recently he was working for Chevron Texaco on a major cogeneration project in Normandy.
Noun used with modifier
- turbine: They have had steam turbine cogeneration for some time.
- combined-cycle: The first combined-cycle cogeneration system in Alberta was developed in 1979 at the Dow Chemical Fort Saskatchewan complex near Edmonton.
- steam: They have had steam turbine cogeneration for some time.
- biomass: A pulp and paper mill in northern Saskatchewan has biomass cogeneration.
- gas: Restructuring led to a number of gas turbine cogeneration projects.
- fuel: The U.S. Government owns and operates 30 fuel cell cogeneration units, the world's largest fleet of fuel cells.
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