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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION REPORT: AISIN SEIKI 6.0 KW NATURAL-GAS-FIRED ENGINE COGENERATION UNIT
Citation:
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION REPORT: AISIN SEIKI 6.0 KW NATURAL-GAS-FIRED ENGINE COGENERATION UNIT. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-05/131, 2005.
Description:
The U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development operates the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program to facilitate the deployment of innovative technologies through performance verification and information dissemination. Congress funds ETV in response to the belief that there are many viable environmental technologies that are not being used for the lack of credible third-party performance data. With performance data developed under this program, technology buyers, financiers, and permitters in the United States and abroad will be better equipped to make informed decisions regarding environmental technology purchase and use. The Greenhouse Gas Technology Center (GHG Center) is one of six verification organizations operating under the ETV program. Distributed electrical power generation (DG)¿electricity generation equipment, typically under 1,000 kW, that provides electric power at a customers site as opposed to central station generation¿is a technology under the purview of the GHG Center. The GHG Center and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority have agreed to collaborate and share the cost of verifying several new DG technologies located throughout the State of New York. The report describes the performance verification of the Aisin Seiki 060 6.0 kW natural gas fired engine cogeneration unit currently in use at the Hooligans Bar and Grille in Liverpool, NY. The Aisin system is manufactured in Japan, and ECO Technology Solutions, LLC. (ECOTS) serves as Aisin's primary agent in the United States. The average power delivered by the unit was 5.31 kW at 23.1% efficiency. The heal recovery unit recovered 43.6 MBtu/hr on average at a thermal efficiency of 57.5%. The total combined heal and power system efficiency averaged 80.6%. The average emission of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, total hydrocarbons, and carbon dioxide was 3.2, 8.3, 17, and 1730 lb/MWh, respectively.