cogeneration

See also: cogénération

English

Etymology

co- +‎ generation

Noun

cogeneration (usually uncountable, plural cogenerations)

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

Related terms

• generation
• trigeneration

 

Translations

simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source

• Bulgarian: когенерация f (kogeneracija)
• Catalan: cogeneració
• Czech: kogenerace f
• Dutch: warmte-krachtkoppeling (nl)
• French: cogénération (fr) f
• Galician: coxeración
• German: Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung f
• Haitian Creole: kojenerasyon
• Hebrew: קוגנרציה
• Italian: cogenerazione (it) f
• Norwegian: kogenerasjon
• Polish: kogeneracja (pl) f
• Romanian: cogenerare
• Russian: когенерация (ru) f (kogeneracija)
• Serbo-Croatian: kogeneracija f
• Slovak: kogenerácia f
• Spanish: cogeneración (es) f
• Swedish: kraftvärmeverk (sv)
• Turkish: kojenerasyon
• Ukrainian: когенерація f (koheneracija)

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