Cogeneration / tri-generation power plant GUASCOR POWER

CAMPOFRÍO ALIMENTACIÓN S.A. is a leading international company within the food sector. It produces meat products which, for the production process, requires significant amounts of heat, in the form of steam and hot water, industrial cooling and electrical energy.

In 1996, with the purpose of reducing energy costs on the production processes and equipping the company with flexible installations in order to meet both present and future energy needs in a secure and efficient manner, GUASCOR ENERGIA went into a joint venture with Campofrío in order to construct and operate a Trigeneration plant - producing heat, cold and electrical energy - .

The Trigeneration plant operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week with a total of 8,700 hours of operation annually.

The installation incorporates four turbo-charged gas engines, each one rated at 3 MW, with a total installed power of 12 MW.

To cover the cold demand on the production process, the trigeneration plant is fitted with an ammonia - water absorption machine, which runs off saturated steam obtained from the heat recovered from the engines' exhaust gases.

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