Cogeneration

Co-gen chemistry personnel often face additional challenges over those encountered by their power plant counterparts. Careful planning and good vigilance are necessary to minimize corrosion and fouling in these systems.

District Energy, Caterpillar to host hydrogen CHP pilot project

District Energy St. Paul and Caterpillar plan to demonstrate a hydrogen-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) system.

Rolls-Royce co-gen plant to power New York City hospital

Rolls-Royce is providing two combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) trigeneration units for Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC). The plant will begin powering the hospital in Fall 2022.

Duke Energy CHP plant now operational at Purdue University

A 16 MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant is now operating on the southern edge of Purdue University’s West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

Advantages of Kurita’s Cetamine® Technology in Fossil and Combined Cycle Power Plants

Film Forming Products (FFP) are increasingly being used as an alternative for water/steam cycle protection against corrosion in fossil, combined cycle and biomass power plants.

New analysis shows Georgia industries could reduce the state’s carbon footprint by up to 13% within the decade by using onsite electric power.

Mexico-based manufacturing site taps Rolls-Royce mtu gen-sets for cogeneration plant

Rolls-Royce Power Systems will deliver its Minnesota-based mtu Series 500 generator set to provide combined heat and power (CHP) for a lubricant manufacturing plant in Mexico. Automotive OEM supplier Raloy Lubricantes selected the mtu Series 500 gen-sets for powering operations at the Santiago Tianquistenco facility. In addition to the electricity used at the plant, heat from exhaust will warm up

Babcock & Wilcox supplying $35M in waste-to-energy equipment for Greenland district heating projects

The renewables segment of power plant equipment maker Babcock & Wilcox has been contracted to provide and install combustion, boiler and feeder systems for a pair of municipal waste-to-energy facilities in Greenland. B&W Renewables was awarded the $35 million-plus contract by ESANI A/S, Greenland’s national waste management company. The facilities will be built near the cities of Nuuk and Sisimiut

Cogeneration

Rolls-Royce Power Systems will deliver its Minnesota-based mtu Series 500 generator set to provide combined heat and power (CHP) for a lubricant manufacturing p…

The renewables segment of power plant equipment maker Babcock & Wilcox has been contracted to provide and install combustion, boiler and feeder systems for …

Wärtsilä secures CHP upgrade and maintenance contract in Argentina

Technology firm Wärtsilä has signed a contract to upgrade and maintain a combined heat and power plant in Argentina. Boortmalt, a malting company, has tasked …

Florida municipal utility contracts MAN to supply gas-fired RICE engines for 120-MW plant

MAN Energy Solutions is providing equipment and building a quick-response, gas-fired power station to replace a recently retired coal-fired plant in a Florida c…

GE helping Taiwan boost grid with 535-MW CCGT cogeneration plant

A new combined cycle gas turbine power plant adding 535 MW to the Taiwanese national grid has started commercial operations. The Chia Hut Combined Heat and Powe…

Bloom Energy fuel cells to power 4.2-MW CHP micro plant in South Korea

Bloom Energy will install the first-ever solid oxide fuel cell technology in a planned combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be built in South Korea. The Calif…

Hitachi to change ABB Power Grids joint venture name, extend focus in e-mobility, digital

Hitachi, which acquired a controlling stake and merged with ABB’s power grid business a year ago, is going to fully take the name of the merged company and ex…

Mitsubishi blast furnace gas turbine to power Chinese steel factory

Mitsubishi Power will supply a 180-MW gas-fired turbine for a Chinese steelmaking operation. Jiangsu Shagang Group has contracted Japan-based Mitsubishi to deli…

Nel Hydrogen electroyzer to reduce CO2 in Swedish industrial plant

Nel Hydrogen has contracted to supply an electroyzer producing green hydrogen for a steel rolling and milling operation in Sweden. The collaboration with Ovako,…

Golden Valley coop buying power from University of Alaska Fairbanks CHP plant

An Alaskan electric cooperative has agreed to buy power from the near university’s combined heat and power (CHP) plant. The Golden Valley Electric Association…

Koehler converts German CHP plant from coal to biomass

The Koehler Group has announced plans to fully convert its power plant at its Oberkirch location in Germany to a combined heat and power plant using biomass as …

MAN supplying 225 MW of on-site power to four power plants in Africa

German power generation equipment supplier MAN Energy Solutions is keeping busy planning and completing plants in Africa. MAN announced it will supply power gen…