The European Union recently established an ambitious target by 2020 that consists of increasing the utilization of renewable energy up to 20%, reducing its overall pollutant emissions to at least 20%, and achieving a primary energy saving of 20% compared to reported 1990 levels. This aim could be reached only with strong effort in different sectors, such as residential, commercial, industry, tertiary, transportation, …. In particular in the European Union aremarkable contribution to energy consumption and CO2 emissions is concentrated in residential and commercial sector. The introduction of more efficient technologies in these sectorscould help in achieving the results expected by 2020. An option is given by cogeneration, defined as the combined “production” of electric and/or mechanical and thermal energy starting from single energy source, that could be considered one of the first elements to save primary energy, to avoid network losses and to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. In particular, our interest will be focused on the microcogeneration (electric power < 15 kW), which represents a valid and interesting application for residential and light commercial users. The energetic, economic and environmental implications due to the use of small scale cogeneration systems were reported, starting by an experimental research activity performed by the authors and other researchers.

Experimental analysis of small scale cogenerators based on natural gas fired reciprocating internal combustion engine

ROSELLI C;SASSO M;
2010-01-01

Abstract

The European Union recently established an ambitious target by 2020 that consists of increasing the utilization of renewable energy up to 20%, reducing its overall pollutant emissions to at least 20%, and achieving a primary energy saving of 20% compared to reported 1990 levels. This aim could be reached only with strong effort in different sectors, such as residential, commercial, industry, tertiary, transportation, …. In particular in the European Union aremarkable contribution to energy consumption and CO2 emissions is concentrated in residential and commercial sector. The introduction of more efficient technologies in these sectorscould help in achieving the results expected by 2020. An option is given by cogeneration, defined as the combined “production” of electric and/or mechanical and thermal energy starting from single energy source, that could be considered one of the first elements to save primary energy, to avoid network losses and to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. In particular, our interest will be focused on the microcogeneration (electric power < 15 kW), which represents a valid and interesting application for residential and light commercial users. The energetic, economic and environmental implications due to the use of small scale cogeneration systems were reported, starting by an experimental research activity performed by the authors and other researchers.
2010
978-0-7918-4915-6
MCHP; microcogeneration; experimental analysis; energy saving
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
ESDA2010-25444.pdf

non disponibili

Licenza: Non specificato
Dimensione 209.59 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
209.59 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12070/10354
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 3
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 1
social impact