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Title: Maritime and construction aspects of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plant ships: detailed report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7294627

A very promising way to alleviate the Nation's energy problems, one that would greatly affect United States maritime activities, would be the rapid development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plant-ships to produce energy-intensive products at sea. Such OTEC plant-ships would use the temperature difference between the warm surface layer and the cold deep layers of a tropical ocean to drive a heat engine to produce electric power that, in turn, would be used to produce ammonia, aluminum, liquid hydrogen, and/or other products. The construction, deployment, operation, and shipping support of these plant-ships are discussed.

Research Organization:
Johns Hopkins Univ., Silver Spring, MD (USA). Applied Physics Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
MA-5-38054
OSTI ID:
7294627
Report Number(s):
PB-257444; APL/JHU-SR-76-1B
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English