Preliminary design study of compressed-air energy storage in a salt dome. Volume 2. Facility-design criteria. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5336078

The facility design criteria for a compressed-air energy storage (CAES) plant located at the Middle South Services, Inc. (MSS), is presented in this final report. Both engineering criteria and economic criteria are considered. Based on a detailed evaluation of qualifications, Brown Boveri Corporation was selected as the turbomachinery supplier for the CAES plant. After analyzing three power cycles, a high-power-fired/low-power-fired heat cycle with an exhaust gas recuperator was selected as the preferred cycle. A weekly cycle of 5 days per week, 8 hours per day for power generation was chosen for the MSS system. The compression duration is 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, plus 16 hours per weekend. The fuel heat rate is estimated at approximately 4000 Btu/kWh. Capacity of the selected CAES plant is 220 MW(e). Although only a single module is considered in this study, MSS prefers that the selected salt dome site accommodate a four-module plant. The financial data and anticipated fuel costs that apply to the MSS system are identified. Historically, the MSS system has been fueled by natural gas or oil. Proposed new baseload generating capacity is either nuclear or coal fired. Preliminary results indicate a slight economic advantage in an optimized MSS expansion plant without CAES. For the 1986 through 2005 time period studied, existing oil-fired steam plants provide the compression energy for the CAES plant additions. This penalizes CAES operating costs, which would benefit from compression energy supplied by low-cost, coal-fired units, if these units were available. When the final capital cost of the CAES plant is developed in Task V, the MSS fuel costs and financial data will be reexamined and the CAES economics reevaluated.

• Research Organization: Middle South Services, Inc., New Orleans, LA (USA); Brown Boveri Corp., North Brunswick, NJ (USA); Fenix and Scisson, Inc., Tulsa, OK (USA); United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-77ET29332
• OSTI ID: 5336078
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-2210-Vol.2; ON: DE82014354
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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