Revision as of 22:21, 5 November 2022

Basics

Any engines that use two or more types of heat engine to produce the one output
This can be done to
- Allow for variable fuel/energy sources (Natural Gas and/or Solar Thermal (Integrated solar combined cycle ISCC )
- Allows for increased efficiency (An ICE with a Turboexpander on it's exhaust stream and a Stirling Engine for vehicles is a good example)
Not to be confused with Cogeneration

This page may need a better name (ie one without "engines" in the title), as TEGs don't make mechanical power, but electrical, so that may be confusing to some
- Although they are Heat Engines i think, so this really gets into Terminology Hell
As of now the abbreviation would be "CCE"
For powerplant applications it is often called "Combined Cycle Power Plant" (CCPP), and has specialty abbreviations ("CCGT" for Combined Cycle Gas Turbine etc)
Combined Cycle Energy Generators (CCEG) (Could be pronounced C-Keg) may work?)

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 *Any engines that use two or more types of heat engine to produce the one output
 *This can be done to
-**Allow for variable fuel/energy sources (Natural Gas and/or Solar Thermal (Integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC)) )
+**Allow for variable fuel/energy sources (Natural Gas and/or Solar Thermal (Integrated solar combined cycle [[ISCC]] )
 **Allows for increased efficiency (An ICE with a Turboexpander  on it's exhaust stream and a Stirling Engine for vehicles is a good example)
 *Not to be confused with [[Cogeneration]]