C. B. Oland 2026-11-05
C. B. Oland is the author credited on Guide to Combined Heat and Power Systems for Boiler Owners and Operators by C. B. Oland, a 2004 Oak Ridge National Laboratory report prepared for the United States Department of Energy. The verified byline uses initials; the report supplies the scientific attribution without requiring an inferred full name.[ref]
Guide to Combined Heat and Power Systems for Boiler Owners and Operators by C. B. Oland. Title page, ORNL/TM-2004/144
The report explains how a facility can obtain both useful heat and electrical or mechanical power from a shared fuel input. Its steam-turbine discussion distinguishes backpressure and condensing arrangements, and defines turbine isentropic efficiency through actual versus ideal enthalpy drop. For example, a 400 kJ/kg actual drop compared with a 500 kJ/kg isentropic drop gives efficiency . The useful heating output remains a separate energy stream, so electrical efficiency alone does not describe the complete installation.[ref]
By C. B. Oland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, prepared for the United States Department of Energy, dated 30 July 2004.
Official report: www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2014/05/f15/guide_chp_boiler.pdf