Coal-water fuel supply and boiler-conversion study. Final report
Abstract
This report presents the results of a study on the feasibility of converting an oil-fired boiler at Occidental Chemical Company's Niagara Falls, New York facility to coal/water slurry (CWS) fuel. The study evaluates technical and economic issues concerning a decision to convert the boiler. Conversion costs are weighted against CWS fuel-cost savings compared to oil and an acceptable market price for the CWS fuel is developed that provides a specified rate of return for the conversion. The report uses the target CWS fuel price in developing a design for a CWS fuel-production plant that could manufacture CWS at that price. In order to achieve the target price the CWS fuel-product plant must be sized to achieve economies of scale and plant output would be far in excess of the converted-boiler's demand. As a result of CWS fuel marketing study was undertaken to define additional boiler-conversion candidates in the western New York area. Without this additional CWS fuel demand, CWS cannot be produced at the target fuel price.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Occidental Chemical Corp., Niagara Falls, NY (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6598835
- Report Number(s):
- PB-89-118061/XAB
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 42 ENGINEERING; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; BOILERS; FUEL SLURRIES; COAL; COMBUSTION KINETICS; CONVERSION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FUEL CONSUMPTION; PROGRESS REPORT; WATER; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DISPERSIONS; DOCUMENT TYPES; ECONOMICS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; MATERIALS; MIXTURES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS; SLURRIES; SUSPENSIONS; 010900* - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Environmental Aspects; 421000 - Engineering- Combustion Systems; 500200 - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)
Citation Formats
. Coal-water fuel supply and boiler-conversion study. Final report. United States: N. p., 1986.
Web.
. Coal-water fuel supply and boiler-conversion study. Final report. United States.
. 1986.
"Coal-water fuel supply and boiler-conversion study. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {This report presents the results of a study on the feasibility of converting an oil-fired boiler at Occidental Chemical Company's Niagara Falls, New York facility to coal/water slurry (CWS) fuel. The study evaluates technical and economic issues concerning a decision to convert the boiler. Conversion costs are weighted against CWS fuel-cost savings compared to oil and an acceptable market price for the CWS fuel is developed that provides a specified rate of return for the conversion. The report uses the target CWS fuel price in developing a design for a CWS fuel-production plant that could manufacture CWS at that price. In order to achieve the target price the CWS fuel-product plant must be sized to achieve economies of scale and plant output would be far in excess of the converted-boiler's demand. As a result of CWS fuel marketing study was undertaken to define additional boiler-conversion candidates in the western New York area. Without this additional CWS fuel demand, CWS cannot be produced at the target fuel price.},
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year = {Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986},
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