What Is A Cogeneration Power Plant?

The word 'cogeneration power plant' describes a kind of power plant that consumes natural gas for producing electricity and also the thermal energy. The plant produces the energy in the form of steam or hot air. In this system the heat energy is being used which in other case would have been wasted.

Sometimes the word also explains the waste heat that has been taken from any kind on industry and is used to produce electricity. The word also describes the heat that has been taken from efficacy to produce stream and it is being used for the industry or for the hot water used in a building.

The word is being derived from the term 'co' that says that something happens along with something else.

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A co-generation power plant is that in which you recover heat energy from the exhaust of the prime mover usually a turbine or an engine and then use it in a boiler to convert the water into steam. This steam can again be used to run another steam turbine coupled with an electric generator to produce more electricity. In this process one produces electricity from a gas turbine coupled with a power generator and then recovering waste heat of this gas turbine and using it to produce steam in a boiler to run another power generator coupled with steam turbine, The recovered heat energy can also be used for air conditioning, in a large building, through heat absorption chiller.

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