EUROPEAN COGENERATION SECTOR LOOKS TO CONTROL TECHNOLOGY TO DELIVER FURTHER EFFICIENCY GAINS

The European co-generation sector has been looking hard for a competitive edge and one area of innovation that has helped it improve its energy efficiency is in the convergence of software, control and instrumentation, internet and wireless communication, and smart grids. These increasingly influence operations and opportunities for co-generation.Improvements in control systems and instrumentation for industrial cogeneration plants are important because of the complexity of operating conditions; the numbers of boilers and turbines frequently involved; potentially ...


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