TRIGENERATION WITH COMBINED CYCLE, HVAC AND DESLINIZATION

Abstract

The current need of mankind to seek for new ways of efficient usable controllable energy production from the economic and environmental points of view is obvious. The current trend towards renewable energies, states this fact though it is not the definitive solution. This is why a undamental step in saving energy is to prevent any misuse or unnecessary energy consumption. Co-generation, with all its variants, is an answer to this problem through the use of the residual thermal energy within electrical production as an usable product instead of as waste to be dissipated in a thermodynamic cooling process in an approximate ratio of 2:1. The basis of the approach is to optimize the management of thermal energy produced during electricity generation to prevent other fuel firing consumptions which can be assumed as heating, air conditioning, desalinization, industrial processes, etc. The profusion of tinstallations of this kind would imply a gross saving of 60% of the general primary fuel. Key words: Trigeneration, Combined cycle, Desalinization, multiefect distillation (med).