Cogeneration Technology Alternatives Study (CTAS): General Electric Company final report. Volume I. Summary report

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5396601· OSTI ID:5396601

Gerlaugh, H. E.; Hall, E. W.; Brown, D. H.; Priestley, R. R.; Knightly, W. F.

Large savings can be made in industry by cogenerating electric power and process heat in single energy conversion systems rather than separately in utility plants and in process boilers. This study examines the use of various advanced energy conversion systems and compares them with each other and with current technology systems for their savings in fuel energy, costs, and emissions in individual plants and on a national level. About fifty industrial processes from the largest energy consuming sectors were used as a basis for matching a similar number of energy conversion systems that are considered as candidate which can be made available by the 1985 to 2000 time period. The sectors considered included food, textiles, lumber, paper, chemicals, petroleum, glass, and primary metals. The energy converison systems included steam and gas turbines, diesels, thermionics, stirling, closed-cycle and steam injected gas turbines, and fuel cells. Fuels considered were coal, both coal and petroleum-based residual and distillate liquid fuels, and low Btu gas obtained through the on-site gasification of coal. An attempt was made to use consistent assumptions and a consistent set of groundrules specified by NASA for determining performance and cost. Atmospheric and pressurized fluidized bed steam turbine systems are the most attractive of the direct coal-fired systems. Open-cycle gas turbines with heat recovery steam generators and combined-cycles with NO/sub x/ emission reduction and moderately increased firing temperatures are the most attractive of the coal-derived liquid-fired systems.

• Research Organization: General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA). Corporate Research and Development Dept.
• OSTI ID: 5396601
• Report Number(s): DOE/NASA/0031-80/1; NASA-CR-159765(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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