By Martin Pehnt, Martin Cames, Corinna Fischer, Barbara Praetorius, Lambert Schneider, Katja Schumacher, Jan-Peter Voß
The creation of micro CHP – the simultaneous construction of warmth and tool in one development according to small strength conversion devices resembling Stirling and reciprocating engines or gas cells – is of accelerating political and public curiosity. This ebook introduces into micro CHP structures and applied sciences, and provides the result of the 1st such research performed via 4 German examine our bodies.
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As such, it needs to be assessed with respect to the sustainability of the broader changes it might help to bring about. This includes decentralization, reduced role of the transmission networks, changing actor constellations, and fuel-switch towards natural gas. Micro cogeneration could also be strongly influenced and shaped by broader developments on the regime level. For this reason, if one aims at assessing the actual potential of micro cogeneration to contribute towards sustainable development, it is necessary to investigate the factors which determine the fitness of micro cogeneration technology under a range of possible alternative paths of regime transformation.
Additionally, the high ratio of electrical to thermal efficiency (power to heat ratio) might increase the CHP electricity generation potential, because with given (and limiting) heat demand, more electricity can be produced (see Chap. 4). In the last decade, considerable efforts have been made to further develop this technology. However, it remains unclear whether fuel cell systems can ever achieve a total efficiency equaling those promised by competing technologies. Also, the high capital cost of early product generations remains a major challenge.
3 to pure heat supply. However, the technical demonstration of feasible CHP systems is still awaited and electrical efficiencies are expected to be low. Other technologies, such as thermophotovoltaic and thermoelectric systems, are still in the research stage. 1 Introduction Energy is in flux. There is much talk nowadays about restructuring of markets, reorientation of business strategies, emergence of new technologies, reform of regulatory institutions, reinvention of the customer, or reconfiguration of the socio-technical architecture of energy production and consumption.