ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COGENERATION

Abstract

The paper analyzes the energy, economic and environmental factors that influence the production of heat and electricity in cogeneration, process which involves the existence of a thermal machine (steam turbine, gas turbine, heat engine) that (co)generates the two directly usable energy flows: thermal and electrical. The thermal car works based on a direct thermodynamic cycle (engine), taking a high-temperature heat flow from the "hot source" and eliminating a lower temperature heat flow to the
"cold source".