Due to the increasing use of alternative energy for producing electricity, there is an increasing demands for reliable, flexible and environment friendly power generation. Electricity and heat guided CHP is a perfect approach to fulfil this demands. If CHP are used to produce electricity at peak demands only, their electric efficiency has a much higher priority compared to heat guided CHPÂ’s.
The ECC has developed a concept for small to medium power CHPÂ’s which offers a significant increase in efficiency. This is realized by an innovative way of using exhaust heat for reforming natural gas or bio gas into a fuel with higher energy content. For this approach, the ECC uses an optimized engine concept to gain a maximum heat recovery and avoids problems relating to the ignition properties of the new fuel. Compared to standard stoichiometrical Gas CHPÂ’s, the efficiency will rise about 20 percent.
Besides the engine technology, the ECC offers special approaches for desulphating and water separation. The ECC approach for desulphating enables unlimited runtime without exchanging absorber materials, thus saving time, cost and space. The gas drying method of the ECC enables increased efficiency by higher exhaust gas temperatures and avoids the consumption of fresh water for reforming.
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