Conversion of resource recovery steam to hot and chilled water systems

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5558644

Lederer, C C; Dickerson, B G; Carmona, R A

The purpose of this project is to determine the potential for developing hot and chilled water islands serving the heating, cooling and refrigeration needs of a combination of energy users. This might be done by driving a steam turbine, using steam from the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Facility (GDRRF). The opportunity to use this steam in a very innovative energy island'' manner, which provides refrigeration, cooling, and heating, for energy clusters of food processing and storage facilities, can be extremely beneficial to community development efforts. The opportunity to utilize turbine drives in place of other sources of primary energy is now feasible. The major objective of this study is to assess the economic and technical feasibility of such configurations. Two basic conceptual approaches for the steam driven turbine energy island were considered; mechanical and electrical. In the case of the mechanical approach'' it is essential to have a secondary purchase market for the waste thermal energy'' generated from the turbine in order to bring it into an economically competitive position. In the case of the turbine driven electric generator approach'', the turbine can be sized to provide the required thermal (heat) energy for the associated uses, and the electric requirements can be met by purchasing more or less from the electric utility or grid. This provides some greater flexibility in island balancing of energy loads. In a summary, there are substantial potential benefits to be derived from the implementation of the use of high pressure steam from the Resource Recovery Facility to support a turbine driven island energy system. It appears that the market can absorb the refuse based energy in select energy island'' situations. This can provide beneficial opportunities to user/participants and offers a means to achieve preservation of other energy resources such as natural gas. 7 figs.

• Research Organization: Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives (USA). Energy Task Force; Detroit, City of, MI (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-78IR05106
• OSTI ID: 5558644
• Report Number(s): DOE/IR/05106-T156; ON: DE91013451
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
COOLING
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY SOURCES
FOOD PROCESSING
HEATING
OHIO
REFRIGERATION
STEAM TURBINES
STORAGE FACILITIES
TURBOGENERATORS
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
CONVERSION
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC GENERATORS
ENERGY FACILITIES
FEDERAL REGION V
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
MACHINERY
NORTH AMERICA
PROCESSING
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
USA
WASTE PROCESSING PLANTS
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
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