Micro-cogeneration units - MCHP

MCHP units - Micro-cogeneration

XRGI® Installations in Model Comparison

From residential to commercial properties: There is a suitable XRGI® CHP unit for every building with year-round electricity and heat requirements. Even high requirements can be reliably met by precisely tailored cascading.

XRGI® – the premier league among CHP

There are many reasons to use a cogeneration unit (CHP): It saves energy costs, improves the climate balance and makes the building future-proof.

However, there is even more that can be said about the XRGI® cogeneration unit from EC POWER:

flexible and simple installation in almost any facility,

the highest certified efficiency on the market,

consistently high level of utilization, also in partial load conditions,

well-thought-out design and quiet operation,

safe installation and integration thanks to ready-to-connect operating strategies,

reliable compliance with legal requirements for new construction and renovation,

long maintenance intervals up to 10,000 operating hours,

numerous certificates and awards,

our partner and service network

and above all: satisfied customers for many years.

See for yourself the exceptional quality and reliable service of the market leader.

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Advantages of cascading compared to a single large heating and power unit:

Cascading heating and power units cover larger partial load ranges, e.g. from 5% to 100%

Cascaded units achieve more full load hours and therefore lower energy generation costs

CHP cascading provides more “on-site electricity” and therefore higher economic benefits

Buying several XRGI® mini blocks often means lower investment costs. The modular and standardised design enables quick and easy integration into an existing or planned heating system – even where space is limited.

In Short: How does XRGI® work?

The XRGI® from EC POWER is a compact combined heat and power unit (CHP) and operates according to the cogeneration principle: It simultaneously produces electricity and heat in a small installation directly on site.

XRGI® is powered by gas, preferably from renewable energy sources. XRGI® operators can decide their own footprint CO₂

To generate electricity, the gas is burned in a highly efficient and extremely quiet combustion engine. The kinetic energy released in this process drives a generator that produces electricity – much like a dynamo on a bicycle, only much more efficiently.

This process produces heat, which XRGI® captures almost completely via a heat exchanger. This means that the heat can be transferred to the heating circuit and used for space heating and domestic hot water.

The fact that a heating and power unit, such as our XRGI®, doubles the energy it uses is what makes it so efficient. Experts talk about a high degree of unit utilization.

Heating and power unit and cogeneration – what is what?

The CHP unit has its name for a reason: it is a term used to describe systems for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat, the engine unit of which is usually constructed as a compact "block". The engine unit is always connected to other components, which form a complete CHP unit - in the case of the XRGI®, these are the Q heat distributor and the iQ control unit.

CHP units are available in many sizes and power levels, from a few kilowatts (kWel) for use in residential, commercial, administrative and industrial buildings to supplying entire city districts with megawatts (MWel) plants. Our XRGI® model range offers user-friendly block units with an output of up to 20 kWel (in a cascade up to 80 kWel) - which is why they are called mini-blocks, like other units with an output of up to 50 kWel.

Heating and power units also have many other names, for example, "electricity-generating heating" or "combined heat and power plant" (for supplying heat to public buildings) or "industrial power plant" (for supplying heat to factories, for example).

Cogeneration (CHP) is a process in which the chemical energy bound in fuels is converted into kinetic energy to produce electricity and thermal energy for heating. This conjugate conversion with simultaneous use has low losses and is therefore very efficient. Cogeneration is the most efficient rational energy technology.