EXPERIMENT ON THE USE OF A NEW SOURCE OF RENEWABLE PRIMARY ENERGY IN ROMANIA FOR RENDERING EFFICIENT THE POWER CO-GENERATION

The fuel renewing in the coal-running power plants, has been ordered by the competitive market mandatory prices of energy. The compliance with this restriction claims the decrease of fuels share to the energy cost from 75% to 35% by using a new type of fuel (corn) with a heat value ober 4,000 Kcal/Kg, compared with that of the coal, 1700 Kcal/Kg. This renewal applied to Romania, Oradea power plant has resulted in the following performances: reducing to half of the co-generation power costs, the thermal power produced from energy savings can heat, annually, 2.106 apartments, the reconfiguration of human resource by the conversion of miners to corn-cultivating farmers, completely environment pollution diminishing the ash resulted from corn combustion, is a performing fertilizer for the cultivated corn. The technical-economic parameters, applied in this particular case to the experiment, show that the capital formation rate increases to 1.5 lei revenue/1 invested leu and the probable resources can be recovered, easily, from the annual resulted profits.