The new combined heat and power plant under construction at BASF's Ludwigshafen site demonstrates the advantages of modern cogeneration technology - Full steam ahead

摘要

THE chemical industry has been a major consumer of electricity since the 1930s, and for all this time, it's also been a user of combined heat and power plants. The technology makes perfect sense - chemical plants invariably consume large amounts of steam, all year round, as the main method of providing heat to the process. And as long as you can use the steam, CHP represents one of the most efficient methods for generating electricity, producing five times as much wattage as conventional power plants from the same energy input.