SRC-II Demonstration Project. Phase zero, task number 3: deliverable number 9. Volume 3. Market assessment: utilization in electric utility industry, supporting results

Technical Report · Tue Jul 31 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5820435

These studies, made with the involvement of Consolidated Edison of New York, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Boston Edison Company, and Florida Power Corporation, indicate SRC-II fuel oil could be a significant and economically competitive fuel for electric power generation in the populous east coast region of the United States. These studies included a range of applications: replacing oil in existing oil-fired boilers, fueling new oil-fired boilers, new combined cycle combustion turbines at today's level of technology, and new advanced combined cycle combustion turbines at forecasted levels of technology. In all cases, using the projected estimate of SRC-II fuel oil costs, SRC-II fuel oil was indicated as a viable alternative when compared to other means of coal utilization, which includes boilers with flue gas desulfurization (FGD) with on-site or off-site sludge disposal and coal gasification integrated with advanced combined cycle combustion turbines. In almost all cases, the dominant economic theme is the inability of the direct use of coal alternatives to offset the higher capital cost of these alternatives with the lower fuel cost of coal compared to the estimated costs of SRC-II fuel oil. In addition to the economic and financial advantages, the SRC-II fuel oil alternatives are judged as having the additional potential of being a simple and efficient, environmentally clean oil-fired method of generation, which furthermore would not present waste control problems at the site of electric power generation.

• Research Organization: Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co., Denver, CO (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5820435
• Report Number(s): FE-3055-T1(Vol.3)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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