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Warsaw - Powering the city through cogeneration

3 October 2012 | Poland

Energy specialists call the combined use of heat and power cogeneration. Warsaw’s cogeneration consists of using the heat that is produced during electricity production in power plants for heating ...

Submitted by Ilka Neumann |

615 visits | Rating : No votes

Residential Fuel Cell Cogeneration System

28 March 2012 | Asia

In May 2009, Panasonic launched the residential fuel cell cogeneration system called “ENE-FARM” which was the first commercialised residential fuel cell in the world. Following the first ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1737 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:Cogeneration | Micro CHP | Combined Heat & Power | domestic appliances

Vaillant EcoPOWER 1.0 (Honda mCHP)

28 March 2012 | Germany

The Honda unit is the first micro-CHP with an internal combustion engine to enable an economical use of a micro CHP for single family houses in Germany and features an innovative and compact ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

3238 visits | Rating : 3/5

Tags:micro-CHP | CHP | Cogeneration | mini CHP | ecopower

Trigeneration and Solar Cooling - Best practice Sheet - Austria (II)

13 December 2011 | Austria

In 2006 Energie Contracting Steyr bought a trigeneration system consisting of a micro gas CHP unit (100°kWel/155°kWth), a heat recovery boiler and an absorption chiller (cooling capacity 35°kW) ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1975 visits | Rating : 4/5

European Virtual Fuel Cell Power Plant - Best practice Sheet - Germany

22 November 2011 | Germany

The aim of the project was to develop, to install, to test and to demonstrate a virtual power plant consisting of 31 decentralized stand-alone residential fuel cell systems. All of them were ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1066 visits | Rating : No votes

Trigeneration and Solar Cooling - Best practice Sheet - Austria

17 November 2011 | Austria

In 2006, the Upper Austrian company OÖ Ferngas put up an innovative service center near the city of Linz. The heating and cooling demands of the building were covered by a sustainable and ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1431 visits | Rating : No votes

Ecopower - Best practice Sheet - Germany

5 October 2011 | Germany

The fact sheet presents the operating principals and technical characteristics of the ecopower micro CHP unit.

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1819 visits | Rating : 5/5

SOLO Stirling 161 - Fact Sheet - Germany

5 October 2011 | Germany

The fact sheet presents the operating principals and technical characteristics of the SOLO Stirling 161 engine. It is equipped with a 2 V-cylinder motor and uses helium as an operating gas. The ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

7006 visits | Rating : 5/5

Pellet-Stirling- Storage-CHP - Best practice Sheet - Germany

5 October 2011 | Germany

The document presents the specifications for a micro CHP unit that uses wooden pellets as fuel.

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

2406 visits | Rating : No votes

SenerTec Dachs RS - Best practice Sheet - Germany

7 October 2011 | Germany

The document presents the design specifications of the Dachs RS CHP unit. The novelty introduced in this unit is that it runs on rapeseed oil fuel. This, along with other technical upgrades, ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

1344 visits | Rating : 5/5