Comments on: Cogen beer http://blog.recycled-energy.com/2008/08/15/cogen-beer/ RED | the new green: thoughts on ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sean Casten http://blog.recycled-energy.com/2008/08/15/cogen-beer/comment-page-1/#comment-6629 Sean Casten Mon, 17 May 2010 14:19:50 +0000 http://blog.recycled-energy.com/?p=38#comment-6629 There is no "one size fits all" solution. The key is to take a close look at facility energy needs and waste energy production - not just in terms of volumes, but also in terms of temperatures, qualities and voltages on the demand side and in terms of Btu content, consistency, pH, entrained particulate, etc. on the waste energy production side. Note that in many cases, that requires gaining access to historic data that was not well metered, so there is a bit of an art to figuring out how to make a sufficiently accurate forecast of future energy needs/production levels to invest long-lived capital in an energy recovery island. Once that exercise is done, there are a host of technologies that may be appropriate - different heat recovery boilers, solid fuel boilers, gas turbines, steam turbines, organic rankine cycles, etc. However, the key to getting the right answer is to start by understanding energy flows and needs - starting with a technological/equipment list is bound to lead to a sub-optimal design (sometimes disastrously so!) There is no “one size fits all” solution. The key is to take a close look at facility energy needs and waste energy production – not just in terms of volumes, but also in terms of temperatures, qualities and voltages on the demand side and in terms of Btu content, consistency, pH, entrained particulate, etc. on the waste energy production side. Note that in many cases, that requires gaining access to historic data that was not well metered, so there is a bit of an art to figuring out how to make a sufficiently accurate forecast of future energy needs/production levels to invest long-lived capital in an energy recovery island.

Once that exercise is done, there are a host of technologies that may be appropriate – different heat recovery boilers, solid fuel boilers, gas turbines, steam turbines, organic rankine cycles, etc. However, the key to getting the right answer is to start by understanding energy flows and needs – starting with a technological/equipment list is bound to lead to a sub-optimal design (sometimes disastrously so!)

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