Exploitable results Optimisation of industrial kilns by means of using low oxygen content exhaust-gases from industrial turbine cogeneration sets A new approach for the implementation of Cogeneration of Heat and Power (CHP) in the ceramics industry has been developed. The method uses the low oxygen content exhaust gases generated by Industrial turbine cogeneration sets as oxidiser to burn additional fuel in the tunnel kilns of the heavy clay and the ceramics tile industry. Following a 2 years R&D project partially funded by the EC a full industrial scale project is being running since April 2002. The project showed: - Primary energy savings of 15%; - Full independence of the heavy clay plant from grid electricity; - Better combustion efficiencies and reduced pollutants; - Mean total cycle efficiency at the range of 80% and 24 hours/day operation of the CHP unit in conjunction with the kiln; - Significant reduction of the total energy cost (fuels and electricity) of the plant of 14%. The methodology is launched worldwidely under the name TUBEK which stands for TUrbine BEfore the Kiln approach. More information is available in http://www.tubek.com Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
