Planet Earth is a place with great natural wealth, which humans have known how to take advantage of, over time, for their benefit. It is from this that the industrial sector developed and grew. However, in the long run, this has led to a problem of waste of resources, in addition to significant damage to certain areas, which have delicate flora and fauna. Various scientific sectors are working to solve this problem, with smart industries that produce goods and services of the same quality, but do not negatively affect the environment.
It is from this search that cogeneration was born, an industry oriented to the generation of energy, which is characterized by making the most of the thermal energy and the electrical energy that is produced. Generally, reference is made to one of its most important advantages: energy efficiency, due to the union of two different types of energy, in a single production process. These plants are generally located very close to the communities to which they will supply energy; This represents another advantage, since voltage changes and transport represent a loss of between 25% and 30% of the total energy.
In addition to cogeneration, trigeneration is also known, a process that, after generating thermal and electrical energy, with the help of residual heat, produces cold. Similarly, tetrageneration can be found, plants in which, together with the three forms of energy mentioned above, mechanical energy is also available.
