OTEC platform configuration and integration. Executive summary. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Jul 26 04:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6493530· OSTI ID:6493530

A brief but comprehensive summary of a conceptual design for an OTEC platform is presented. In the first phase studies, an evaluation methodology was developed for analyzing the ocean system requirements against site criteria and a final evaluation of integrated OTEC commercial platform candidates was performed. A ranking of candidate platforms was obtained as the end result. For Phase-II studies, M. Rosenblatt and Son, Inc. project team was given the SPAR and SPHERE platforms to perform not only the conceptual designs for, but also cost and time schedules and sensitivity analyses. The commercial plant size was specified to be 400 MWe (net). All conceptual design work was performed for the baseline site on West Coast of Florida. The cost differentials and other considerations involved with deploying the platforms in the New Orleans and Puerto Rico sites were also determined. A demonstration plant of 100 MWe (net) capacity, to fill the gap between test platforms and commercial plants, was also investigated, and a project plan was developed. As an end product of the complete study, the costs for the SPAR and the SPHERE platforms are reported both in terms of acquisition costs in 1978 dollars and life cycle costs in dollars per kilowatt.

• Research Organization: Rosenblatt (M.) and Son, Inc., New York (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 6493530
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/4065-1(Exec.Summ.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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