Overview of the DOE/METC Natural Gas Program
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OSTI ID:10157901
The mission of the US Department of Energy`s (DOE) natural gas program is to enhance the Nation`s energy security, economic growth and efficiency, and environmental quality. This mission will be accomplished by removing barriers to the expanded use of domestic natural gas; development of economic and environmentally efficient, reliable natural gas supply, storage, transportation, and utilization technologies; and improving competition and technology transfer. The Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) supports the DOE Natural Gas mission through research, development, - and demonstration (RD&D), of natural gas supply and utilization technologies. Projects are structured to foster eventual industry commercialization of the technologies. METC`s RD&D is integrated with projects and activities being sponsored by other funding organizations. Goals of METC`s program include increasing user confidence in long term supply of natural gas and verification of adequate gas reserves; and development and commercialization of high efficiency, cost-effective extraction and utilization technologies. METC`s program also includes gas utilization projects on advanced gas turbine systems, fuel cells, and on processes to convert natural gas to liquid products. METC`s vision for the year 2010 is the following: Natural gas recovery and environmental technologies will insure a reliable US natural gas supply of at least 23 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) per year from both conventional and nonconventional resources; for the utility market, advanced turbine systems operating on natural gas have been demonstrated and are available commercially; fuel cells and small advanced combustion turbine systems supply a distributed power market with natural gas fueled devices in the 1 to 50 megawatt electrical (MWe) range while the 50 MWe size range are being commercialized in the large industrial and commercial cogeneration markets.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Morgantown, WV (United States). Morgantown Energy Technology Center
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 10157901
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/METC/C--93/7064; CONF-9301108--1; ON: DE93013484; NC: NONE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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