User’s Guide | TOTEM 10 - TOTEM 20
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Product Description
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General Information
This User’s Guide is intended to provide the necessary information for the use of
TOTEM units. TOTEM micro cogeneration units are appliances that allow for the
combined production of electricity and heat at the user’s site, thus optimizing the use
of the fuel’s primary energy and reducing grid distribution and separate generation
losses.
CHP units, indeed, can be easily integrated into any technological environment,
enabling fulfillment of the heating requirements of different users in a variety of
sectors:
hospitality;
wellbeing;
catering;
health-care;
housing;
public;
agri-food;
distribution chains.
Using a micro cogeneration unit allows to achieve significant economic savings and
environmental benefits.
The unit consists of an endothermic engine originally devised for the automotive
industry, coupled to an asynchronous generator.
The heat produced in the endothermic engine’s combustion process is almost fully
recovered by means of a high-efficiency heat exchangers system and made available
to users as hot water.
Thanks to its modern propellers manufactured by FCA, specially engineered to run on
gas and optimized to work under steady-state, the unit allows for optimized
performance and longer maintenance intervals. Moreover, its modern Euro 6
technology enables a significant reduction of nitrogen oxides - NO
x
- and carbon
monoxide - CO - emissions as compared to conventional condensing boilers.
TOTEM® units’ compact size and versatility allows installation in tight equipment
rooms and their use on existing premises, including with environmental or
architectural constraints.
Its control systems allow to monitor and log data for power and heating load profiles,
including remotely. Moreover, it enables service staff to monitor any alarm signal
detected thus enabling emergency service in case of breakdown or malfunctioning.
