Energy efficiency has been defined by the IEA as still being a “hidden fuel”. The rational use of energy within an industrial plant remains decisive in the pursuit of goals where reducing energy consumption and the use of fossil fuels, whilst increasing the level of environmental and economic sustainability of businesses, is concerned. Where there is a significant heating consumption, priority should be given to considering the use of cogeneration as an effective technology together with the use of energy from renewable sources.
The lack of space at the customer’s plant is often a problem in the construction of a cogeneration or trigeneration plant along with the need for minimal interference with production processes.
This is why CO-VER has developed its own procedures for building containerized systems: complete systems in 24″ or 40″ containers, which arrive on site already insulated and soundproofed thanks to a complete pre-fabrication outfit carried out in the workshop, including most functional tests.
“Our containerized trigeneration plant, built and tested entirely in Italy, is now undergoing final testing in Poland.” Simone Marchisotti, Project Manager of CO-VER, explains “When it arrived in Radomsko, it was placed on a platform set up in the external area of our customer’s plant, and then connected to the local utilities networks. The main advantages of this type of plant are the optimization of logistics and the reduction of installation and start-up times on site. CO-VER reached this solution by incorporating both the plant requirements at the site and the links to the customer’s process, during the design stage. This allowed for a custom-made solution with the construction stage taking place mostly in the workshop instead of on site. All the bureaucratic requirements, permit requests, civil works and electromechanical connections were entrusted to local contractors assisted by our staff which also resulted in a positive impact on the territory.”
The trigeneration plant in Radomsko, built for Manuli s.p.A, will produce 999 kW of electricity and will recover of about 1,200 kW of heat from the motor generator and exhaust gases cooling circuit , the equivalent of about 500 Tep per year.
