Predicting the fuel and energy balance and the use of gas in U. S. industry to the year 2000

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Ceram. Eng. Sci. Proc.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470318829.ch3· OSTI ID:6421319

Dreyfus, D A; Tab, E S

The total natural gas reserves in the U.S. exceed 3 times 10exp13 cubic meters and at the current level of demand, they will last for 50 years. The level of extraction and demand for natural gas (PG) in the U.S. is a function of the economic competition and of natural gas prices. It was assumed for the prediction that the actual oil prices in 1985 will be equivalent (with consideration of inflation) to 1981 prices and that between 1985 and the year 2000 they will rise by 2 percent per year; here the gross national product in the U.S. will rise by 2.4 percent per year. Prediction of the primary fuel and energy balance (TEB) for the year 2000 in equivalent joules (1981 data is in parentheses) is: in primary energy: oil, 33.4 (33.8); natural gas, 17.6 (20.9); in coal, 35.1 (16.9); nuclear power, 7.8 (3.1) and the remaining (hydroelectric power plants (GES), renewable sources and so on), 6.8 (3.3). The prediction of the fuel and energy balance is: transport, 19.8 (20.2); industry, 32.4 (22.3); domestic needs and small consumers, 18.7 (17.0) and losses (in extraction and transport of electric power and in gasifying coal), 30.8 (18.5). Data are cited about the fuel and energy balance of the industrial sector, along with a prediction for the year 2000. The prediction of the balance in the demand for gas is: domestic and small consumers, 8.0 (7.8); industry, 8.3 (8.4), electric power plants (ES), 2.2 (4.0) and transport, 0.8 (0.6).

• OSTI ID: 6421319
• Journal Information: Ceram. Eng. Sci. Proc.; (United States), Journal Name: Ceram. Eng. Sci. Proc.; (United States) Vol. 4:3-4; ISSN CESPD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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