cogeneration

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Noun

cogeneration (uncountable)

1. The production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process.
2. The simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source.
3. Joint generation; cocreation.
   • 2018, Thomas Elmqvist, The Urban Planet: Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities (page xxix)

     The book project is part of a larger effort by Future Earth to build mechanisms for cogeneration of knowledge […]

Synonyms

• (combined heat and power) CHP

Translations

• French: cogénération
• German: Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung
• Italian: cogenerazione
• Russian: когенерация
• Spanish: cogeneración

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