Food & Beverage Industry

The food & beverage industry is all of the businesses involved in producing, transporting, storing, and selling food & beverage. There are a lot of food & beverage industry sectors which consume significant amount of electrical and heat power. Own power generation based on reciprocating engines is in widespread use among many food & beverage industry segments. The most popular solution is cogeneration & trigeneration.

Applicable Fuel

Natural gas

Hydrogen

Biogas

Main Application of Gas Engines Power Solution

Companies from food production, food storage & food selling have heist interest in the technology:

Food production (Meat, animal feeds, vegetables, Soft drinks, Chilled & frozen products, etc) because own cogeneration solution gives strong economic benefits

Food storages (large warehouses with refrigerators) can efficiently use trigeneration

Supermarkets install own cogeneration power stations to produce heat & electric power for own needs as well as to charge guests electric vehicles

Favorable Conditions for Own Cogeneration Power

High electricity costs

Thermal or cooling loads throughout the year

Intention to reduce emissions

Long hours of operation (>4,000 hours/year)

Issues with power reliability or electricity quality

Solution Advantages

Fast return on investment in a cogeneration plant

Ability to produce high-grade steam that can be used in the production process

Ability to obtain significant amounts of CO2 (used in greenhouses and some other industries)

Profitability - significant financial savings with stable consumption of electricity and heat

Efficiency - Over 90% overall efficiency

High reliability, reduction of breaks in power supply

Quick start and reaching the nominal power. Full power can be reached within a couple of minutes

High adaptability to load changes

Container version of mini-CHP, compactness and minimal weight

Minimum commissioning time

How it Works

See Co-generation