NEW IDEAS FOR ENERGY-UTILIZATION IN COMBINED HEAT AND POWER WITH COOLING .1. PRINCIPLES

New ideas are needed to reduce installed cooling capacities and growin g ventilation costs and to improve control in the various zones of CHP plants with cooling. Above all the thermal energy available in summer from electricity cogeneration must be exploited. Unconventional cooli ng systems, such as evaporative or chemical dehumidification, allow on e to achieve some of the objectives.; Chemical dehumidification, both by adsorption and absorption, particularly permits new plant lay-outs, leading to the complete elimination of traditional cooling equipment with direct air treatment and very high potential energy savings. Copy right (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.