Energy technology screening criteria. Final report

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:350624

Shikari, Y A; Richards, M E; Taylor, W R

Federal energy policies promote the increased use of clean-burning natural gas for industrial and commercial process applications, and it is anticipated that the Department of Defense (DoD) installations will join in this trend over the next decade. Public and private development efforts over the past few years have resulted in gas energy conversion technologies with improved efficiencies, reduced emission levels, and lower life cycle costs. Advanced natural gas technologies such as ultra-low emission burners, gas turbines, and natural gas cooling systems are likely to play an increasingly important role at DoD facilities. The Government already has a software tool, the Renewable and Energy Efficiency Planning (REEP) program, for evaluating alternative Energy Conservation Opportunities (ECOs) at United States military installations. However, there exists a need to incorporate new and evolving gas-fired energy conversion technologies in its database and to update evaluation algorithms as well as technical and economic performance characteristics for ECOs included in the current version of the REEP program. This report provides DoD facility engineers with a set of performance criteria for selected current and advanced natural gas technologies to be used to develop technology screening agents for the REEP program.

• Research Organization: Army Construction Engineering Research Lab., Champaign, IL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 350624
• Report Number(s): AD-A--359609/XAB; CERL-TR--98/111
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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