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Cogeneration (CHP) vs Separate Heat & Power

Interactive 3D simulation comparing a combined heat-and-power (cogeneration) plant against separate electricity and heat production for the same demand, showing fuel use, waste heat and overall efficiency side by side.

Energy & Thermodynamics3DModerate60 FPS

A combined heat-and-power plant captures the exhaust heat a conventional power plant would otherwise dump up a cooling tower, and routes it into a district-heating network instead of burning extra fuel in a separate boiler. This simulation runs both approaches side by side against the same electricity and heat demand: watch the fuel, electricity and heat particle streams, the cooling-tower waste plume on the separate side, and the topping-boiler kick in on the CHP side whenever recovered heat can't cover the full heat demand. Adjust demand and plant efficiencies to see how the fuel-savings gap opens and closes.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D simulation comparing a combined heat-and-power (cogeneration) plant against separate electricity and heat production for the same demand, visualizing fuel, electricity, delivered heat and wasted heat as particle flows while tracking overall efficiency and fuel savings.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install