High Btu gas from peat. Volume III. Part A. Environmental and socioeconomic feasibility assessment

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5111379

In September 1980, the US Department of Energy awarded a grant (No. DE-FG01-80RA50348) to the Minnesota Gas Company (Minnegasco) to evaluate the current commercial viability - technical, economic, environmental, financial, and regulatory - of producing 80 million SCF/day of substitute natural gas (SNG). Minnegasco's project team for this study consisted of Dravo Engineers and Constructors (for design, engineering, and economics of peat harvesting, dewatering, and gasification systems), Ertec, Inc. (for environmental and socio-economic analyses), IGT (for providing gasification process information, and technical and engineering support to Minnegasco) and Deloitte Haskins and Sells (for providing management structural support to Minnegasco). This Final Report presents the work conducted by Ertec, Inc. under tasks 6 and 7. The study objective was to provide an initial environmental and socio-economic evaluation of the proposed facility to assess project feasbility. To accomplish this objective, detailed field studies were conducted in the areas of Hydrology, Air Quality and Socio-Economics. Less extensive surveys were conducted in the areas of Geology, Ecology, Acoustics, Land Use, Archaeology and Resource Assessment. Part A of Volume 3 contains the introduction and plant area conditions which include the following: (1) description of existing conditions-geology; (2) hydrology; (3) terrestrial and aquatic ecology; (4) meteorology; (5) land use existing conditions; (6) archaeology; (7) aesthetics-existing conditions; (8) acoustics; (9) existing socioeconomic conditions; and (10) resource assessment. 25 figures, 55 tables.

• Research Organization: Ertec Atlantic, Inc., Somerset, NJ (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG01-80RA50348
• OSTI ID: 5111379
• Report Number(s): DOE/RA/50348-T8-Vol.3-Pt.A; ON: DE84005560
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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HIGH BTU GAS
PRODUCTION
PEAT
GASIFICATION
PEATGAS PROCESS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
SNG PLANTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
ACOUSTICS
AIR QUALITY
ARCHAEOLOGY
ECOLOGY
GEOLOGY
HYDROLOGY
LAND USE
METEOROLOGY
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
COAL GASIFICATION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
ORGANIC MATTER
SNG PROCESSES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
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Lignite
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