This document discusses the benefits of combined heat and power (CHP) as a manufactured product for complying with Boiler MACT regulations. It notes that CHP as a manufactured product offers benefits like a unified warranty, standardized and modular design that lowers costs, risk mitigation through clear responsibility, rapid installation, and integration of components to optimize efficiency. Examples of manufactured CHP products are also provided, and the document concludes that CHP as a manufactured product reduces risks while optimizing performance for complying with emissions regulations.

1. Complying with Boiler MACT using
CHP as a Manufactured Product
Presented by:
George Voss, President
Sustainability Business Management, LLC

2. GeorgeVoss
Manufacturer and patented inventor of
renewable fuels combustion equipment
Environmental engineer with the
Illinois EPA and Bechtel Power Corporation
M.S. in environmental engineering and B.S. in general
engineering from University of Illinois
Board member of the greater Chicago area A&WMA-
LMSS
Active in the policy committee of the Midwest
Cogeneration Association

3. Benefits of CHP
• Improve Energy Efficiency
• Manage Costs
• Energy Security – Mitigate Impacts
• Environmental
• Diversify Energy Supply - Hedge

4. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Unified all inclusive warranty
including biogas treatment, SCADA
controls and switchgear

5. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Cost efficient option due to
standardization of design and advanced
manufacturing technologies – lowers
CAPEX and operating costs and enables
remote monitoring

6. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Risk Mitigation - there is no argument
about who is responsible if something goes
wrong – much like buying a gas fired boiler
with the economic advantage of producing
electricity

7. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Custom containerization extends the
concept of a power-plant-in-a-box to a
building in a box – access for
maintenance, sound attenuation, no need
for a building

8. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Rapid installation – in with a crane
(and out with a crane – maintains
high asset value), move to another
location or even resell it on eBay!

9. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• A technological solution that facilitates a
bankable solution – ROI driven by market
value of electricity, spark spread, hours of
operation and onsite appetite for
electricity and heat

10. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• EPA certification with documented
performance specifications that enable
advanced economic and life-cycle cost
modeling. SCR can be added in non-
attainment areas or agency demands

11. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Modular construction enables cost
efficient expansion of capacity and can
provide system redundancy. Think of it as
multiple boxes that can be placed next to
each other

12. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Economics are driven by the efficient
generation of higher value electricity and
deployment efficiencies. Quick, simple
installation, low natural gas/higher
electricity prices make CHP a valid choice

13. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Sustainability objectives are supported
through design optimization of waste heat
recovery. Companies that have changed
the light bulbs, energy efficiency engineers
and sustainability directors look to CHP

14. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Standardization lowers engineering and
fabrication costs and as a consequence,
operational expenses are minimized as
well. The system is integrated to the point
that it can be run with an iPad.

15. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Direct utilization of heat to process can
reduce the need for a replacement boiler.
With the addition of CHP the need for a
new boiler can be totally avoided

16. Benefits of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Integration of all components, including
controls optimizes the combustion
process. This is a key point – that
integration increases efficiency, decreases
emissions and reduces maintenance

17. Limitations of CHP as a
Manufactured Product
• Inflexible application beyond set design parameters
• Practical maximum size of 10 MW - (5) 2 MW
modules, largest application determined largely by
economics
• Overall benefits outweigh restrictions

18. Manufactured Product Examples

19. Conclusions
CHP as a manufactured product and as a
choice to comply with Boiler MACT reduces
risk and optimizes performance.
Thank you!