Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Jobs

Combined Heat & Power Jobs

CHP or Cogeneration is the use of a heat engine or a power station to generate both electricity and useful heat at the same time.

Conventional power plants emit the heat created as a by-product of electricity generation into the environment through cooling towers, flue gas, or by other means. CHP or a bottoming cycle captures the by-product heat for domestic or industrial heating purposes, either very close to the plant, or as hot water for district heating.

Cogeneration is a efficient use of fuel. In separate production of electricity some energy must be rejected as waste heat, but in cogeneration this thermal energy is put to good use.