Organization of Combined Heat Energy Generation for Municipal Facilities

Abstract

Modern society consumes more and more energy. In accordance with the geographical location and climatic conditions, fuel costs both for providing the population with heat and for production in Russia are very high. Russia is considered the coldest country in the world, both in terms of the duration of the heating season, and in the proportion of the population living in regions with negative average annual temperature. Increasing the amount of municipal facilities requires an increase in the production of thermal and electric energy to ensure their functioning. Considering on current economic situation there is a necessity of huge investments to create generation capacity for energy production. Also there is a necessity to maintain these capacities during the off-season period, when the generation of thermal energy is at minimum level. When switching to combined energy generation for municipal infrastructure, it will become possible to use a more optimal scheme for converting thermal energy of gaseous fuels into thermal energy directed to heating water with the associated generation of electric energy. Thus the efficiency of system is increased and cost to provide facilities with thermal and electric energy is decreased.