COGENERATION  

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• Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of Process Heat and Electric Power  using single fuel.

• Agro industries where cogeneration potential possible are:

  • Sugar

  • Distilleries

  • Rice Mills

  • Paper & Pulp

  • Breweries

  • Solvent Extraction

  • Dairies

  • Plywood Industries  etc 

• Cogeneration in Sugar Industries is the most popular, environment friendly way  of producing electricity   using sugar cane bagasse.

• In sugar industries, reasonably large quantities of steam at low pressure and temperature are required. This is apart from the electrical and mechanical energy required to drive various equipments. In such cases, it is advantages to raise steam at higher pressure and use the extra energy (in the form of pressure) to drive generators for production of electricity. Such energy produced is incidental to the systems requiring only marginal quantities (about 20 %) of additional fuel and this is known as COGENERATION.

• Cogeneration facilities increase economic viability and profitability  of an industry

• Cogeneration projects based on agro waste, like rice husk, bagasse etc. as fuel  will result in:

  Lower cost of energy generation
  Uninterrupted availability of electrical power to the required levels and without any significant fluctuation in voltage and frequency.
  Higher profitability of plant due to substantial reduction in cost of production and enhanced productivity.
  Virtual zero consumption of costly and scarce fuels like diesel oil.
  Possibilities of generating additional power and selling it to other consumers thereby adding to the plant's profitability.
  Low gestation period.
  Low capital investment.