Powering the future

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EPC Contracting's Approach

Starting from the specific and detailed feasibility analysis, to the turnkey proposal of the entire plant, all the way to the subsequent maintenance, we support clients throughout the entire process, even accompanying them during operation.

Cogeneration

The simultaneous production of electrical and thermal energy from a single primary source (CHP - Combined Heat and Power) generates important efficiencies: cogeneration exploits the thermal energy that would otherwise be lost in the electricity production process and enables energy cost savings of up to 40% of the total cost of electrical, thermal and refrigeration supply.

Cefla began in the 1980s to build cogeneration plants, initially in the ceramic industry, which is particularly energy-intensive and interested in generating efficiency and savings through self-generation of energy.

Today there are many customers Cefla has partnered with over the years, in the most diverse sectors:

• industry (ceramic, steel, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing in general ... )
• shopping and business centers
• large district heating plants that provide light and heat to up to even 100,000 people.
  
  

Trigeneration

Cefla, over the years has built many trigeneration plants for the production of chilled water (>7°C) through the use of Lithium Bromide refrigerant absorbers that use part of the heat from cogeneration. This configuration leads to savings from decreasing the electrical consumption of existing chiller units.

But that's not all. To meet the needs of companies in the food sector (e.g., frozen food) and beyond, Cefla also builds "sub-zero" trigeneration plants that, through the use of ammonia absorbers, allow temperatures as low as -40°C to be reached.

The benefits

• energy efficiency
• reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2)
• energy emission certificates (white certificates)
• environmental benefit
• continuity of energy supply (island operations)
• use of energy sources with incentive system
• subsidized tax regimes (methane defiscalization)

Stages of implementation