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Microturbines – as varied as you and your requirements

Cogeneration plants (combined heat and power plants - CHP) with microturbines – this is top technology for industry and local authorities, which offers you reliable solutions for your decentralised power supply. For us, energy effi ciency is a high priority, so that you can design your processes to be energy and cost saving. Use of this low-emission technology not only strengthens your competitiveness, but also makes a valuable contribution to climate protection.

Full  steam ahead

Industrial heat generators (e.g. steam boilers and hot water boilers) are used to generate process heat for industrial facilities or the heat supply of residential complexes as well as public facilities. By retrofitting of a microturbine to existing heat generators, those are switched from pure heat generation to combined power and heat production.

Without complicated or expensive intermediate steps, you can directly feed the exhaust air from microturbine CHP plants to selected burners as 280 °C hot „fresh air“.

Microturbines are outstandingly good for use in industrial applications such as steam generation and thermal oil heating. Total plant efficiencies of up to 96 % are achieved in these applications.

Drying made easy

Use the exhaust gases of the microturbine for direct drying of your products. The areas of application are diverse and range from pallets to gravel and fertiliser through to wood pellets, the only exception is food intended for human consumption. Due to the still high oxygen fraction (approx. 18 %) in the exhaust gas and almost complete combustion of the gas, the exhaust gas of the microturbine contains only minimum quantities of carbon monoxide and formaldehyde

Constantly large output at high temperatures

Microturbine CHP plants display their strengths where industrial hot water is required for heat use. Because in applications within the temperature range over 100 °C they have a particularly high thermal efficiency. Use the constantly arising waste heat at high temperature level as process heat for your industrial applications.

Cool down

Trigeneration plants (combined cooling, heat and power plants - CCHP) compensate fluctuations in the heating demand during the year, when surplus heat in the summer is used to produce cooling (e.g. air conditioning for buildings). The combination of microturbine technology and an absorption chiller enables efficient heat and cooling production. This interaction increases the CHP base load share and the annual working hours, which has a positive effect on the overall economic efficiency of the plant. The combination of microturbine technology and chiller enables efficient heat and cooling generation.

Guaranteed reliable – uninterruptible power supply and isolated operation solutions

Do you have equipment and machines which have to be available to you for 100 % of their running time? Microturbine CHP plants guarantee you a sustained, reliable electricity supply and are therefore especially suitable for the supply of isolated systems. The plant is equipped with a battery to ensure sensitive equipment can be continuously supplied with electricity, in order to buffer consumption fluctuations and to enable a so-called black start, i.e. starting the plant without external power supply.

With a broad load spectrum for diverse possible uses

Microturbine CHP plants can be used in diverse ways for full and partial load, because even in part-load operation, the turbines only have low electrical efficiency losses. This is because the mechanical components usually required for engines are not needed for synchronisation with the electricity network.
The fast rotating microturbine generates a high-frequency alternating current, which is first rectified and then – as in a photovoltaic system - is fed into the electricity network via an inverter. The plant begins feeding in electricity within seconds of the ignition in the combustion chamber.