Use of Combined Cogeneration–Thermal Pumping Plants for Municipal Heat Power Engineering and Heat Technologies

A procedure is suggested for determining the relative integral fuel economy of heat power engineering plants based on the equations of balances of their thermal and electric powers. A comparative analysis of the fuel economy of combined cogeneration–thermal pumping technology of heat generation with traditional technologies is carried out. The results of the comparative analysis of the fuel economy of a combined cogeneration–thermal pumping plant, boiler plant, and of autonomous thermal pumping plant, consuming line-operated electric energy from a thermal power station are presented. Since the energy base of the cogeneration–thermal pumping plant is the cogeneration plant, a comparison of such a plant with plants for separate production of electric and thermal energies at the thermal power station and in the boiler room is made.