Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The production from a single power source of both electricity and useful heat while simultaneously providing cooling, as for refrigeration.
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- noun The
simultaneous production ofmechanical power (often converted toelectricity ),heat , andcooling from a single heat source such asfuel orsolar energy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes cooling is also produced ( 'trigeneration').
Greenpeace UK - Comments Juliana26Silva 2010
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Sometimes cooling is also produced ( 'trigeneration').
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The 'trigeneration' technology, which creates highly efficient heat, electricity and cooling, will also reduce carbon emissions by 884 tonnes each year - equivalent to the environmental benefit of 88,400 trees.
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The 'trigeneration' technology, which creates highly efficient heat, electricity and cooling, will also reduce carbon emissions by 884 tonnes each year - equivalent to the environmental benefit of 88,400 trees.
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Sometimes cooling is also produced ( 'trigeneration').
Greenpeace UK - Comments fiwedding 2010
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The Taiyanggong plant, China's first urban gas-fired trigeneration plant, generates 3.2 GWh of power per year and is estimated to cut 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 per year in electricity generation alone.
Alex Pasternack: Highlight of Hillary Clinton's Beijing Tour? A Power Plant 2009
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The sound economics and ethics of cogeneration and trigeneration are clear, but the technology is spreading only slowly.
Alex Pasternack: Highlight of Hillary Clinton's Beijing Tour? A Power Plant 2009
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It's a trigeneration coal and natural gas plant that produces fewer emissions and pollutants than similar power plants.
Alex Pasternack: China is Tackling Climate Change Better Than the US -- Discuss 2009
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New York launched its first trigeneration plant last year, but as Forbes. com reports, regulatory hurdles and the complexities of building the plants have kept many stuck in the pipeline.
Alex Pasternack: Highlight of Hillary Clinton's Beijing Tour? A Power Plant 2009
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While a cogeneration plant offers combined heating-and-power (CHP) through the conversion of waste heat -- a technology John Laumer has called "deadly sexy" -- a trigeneration plant also generates chilled water using that heat.
Alex Pasternack: Highlight of Hillary Clinton's Beijing Tour? A Power Plant 2009
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