Central heating plant economic evaluation program. Volume 4. Coalfield properties information data management program. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:121953

Lin, M C; Moshage, R; Schanche, G; Blazek, C; Biederman, R

Public law has directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to rehabilitate and convert its existing domestic power plants to burn more coal. Other Federal legislation requires DoD to use the most economic fuel for any new heating system. This five-volume report discusses the Central Heating Plant Economic Evaluation Program (CHPECON), a computer program for screening potential new and retrofit steam/power generation facilities. Volume 4 is the Coalfield Properties Information Data Management Program. CHPECON provides screening criteria to evaluate competing combustion technologies using coal, gas, or oil; detailed conceptual facility design information; budgetary facility costs; and economic measures of project acceptability including total life cycle costs and levelized cost of service. The program provides sufficient flexibility to vary critical design and operating parameters to determine project sensitivity and parametric evaluation.

• Research Organization: Army Construction Engineering Research Lab., Champaign, IL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 121953
• Report Number(s): AD-A--293485/9/XAB; CERL-TR-FB--95/08
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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