Submitted by: Patti Garland, ESTD Distributed Energy Program Manager

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s CHP Group, along with the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering at the University of Maryland, is demonstrating an advanced combined heat and power (CHP) system that provides electricity, cooling, and dehumidification to a 52,000 square foot office building on the U of M campus. This system consists of a 75 kilowatt generator produced by DTE Energy Technologies with a liquid desiccant unit produced by Kathabar Systems, which simultaneously generates power, dehumidification, and cooling for the Chesapeake Office Building on campus. This work is being done in support of EERE’s Distributed Energy Program. A dedication ceremony and reception was held on Thursday, September 9, at the Chesapeake Building on the University of Maryland campus. The speakers were Dr. Avram Bar-Cohen, Chair, Mechanical Engineering; Pat Hoffman, Distributed Energy Program Manager, DOE; Dr. Mike Faubert, Vice President, DTE Energy Technologies; and Bill Szabo, Regional Vice President, Sales, Kathabar Systems.

L-R: Patti Garland, ESTD Distributed Energy Program Manager, ORNL; Dr. Avram Bar-Cohen, Chair, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland; Dr. Mike Faubert, Vice President, DTE Energy Technologies; Bill Szabo, Regional Vice President, Sales, Kathabar Systems; Ronald Fiskum, Technology Manager, DE Program, DOE, Patricia Hoffman, DE Program Manager, DOE, Dennis Moran, Director, Mid-Atlantic CHP Application Center, Dr. Reinhard Radermacher, Director, Center for Environment Energy Engineering, University of Maryland

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