State Demonstration Program in Wood Energy. Volume II. Feasibility studies and demonstration projects (Part A). Final report

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:5099828

Bulpitt, W S; Curtis, G B; Brown, M L; Dixit, B S

This volume of the final report deals with two major tasks of the wood energy project - feasibility studies and demonstration projects. The volume is thus divided into two parts: Part A deals with the feasibility studies and Part B deals with the demonstration projects. Two types of feasibility studies were performed under this project - fourteen studies were carried out for potential wood fuel users and four feasibility studies were carried out for potential wood fuel suppliers. The methodology used for selecting the plants for which studies were performed is described. Of the fourteen user studies, ten of the studies indicated potential payback periods of five years or less, indicating that wood energy systems should be seriously considered by those companies. If all of the plants were to convert to wood energy use from fossil fuels, the total potential wood consumption would be in excess of 480,000 tons per year, displacing 1,672,000 MCF of natural gas and 1,607,400 gallons of oil per year. The entire texts of the feasibility studies are included in Appendices A and C, but the specific identification of the plants has been withheld due to the desire of some corporations to remain anonymous.

• Research Organization: Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta (USA). Engineering Experiment Station
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-79ET23076
• OSTI ID: 5099828
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/23076-T2-Vol.2-Pt.A; ON: DE86001958
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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