Fuel-cell-propelled submarine-tanker-system study

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6728427· OSTI ID:6728427

Court, K E; Kumm, W H; O'Callaghan, J E

This report provides a systems analysis of a commercial Arctic Ocean submarine tanker system to carry fossil energy to markets. The submarine is to be propelled by a modular Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell system. The power level is 20 Megawatts. The DOE developed electric utility type fuel cell will be fueled with methanol. Oxidant will be provided from a liquid oxygen tank carried onboard. The twin screw submarine tanker design is sized at 165,000 deadweight tons and the study includes costs and an economic analysis of the transport system of 6 ships. The route will be under the polar icecap from a loading terminal located off Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to a transshipment facility postulated to be in a Norwegian fjord. The system throughput of the gas-fed methanol cargo will be 450,000 barrels per day. The total delivered cost of the methanol including well head purchase price of natural gas, methanol production, and shipping would be $25/bbl from Alaska to the US East Coast. Of this, the shipping cost is $6.80/bbl. All costs in 1981 dollars.

• Research Organization: Arctic Enterprises, Inc., Annapolis, MD (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-81FE15086
• OSTI ID: 6728427
• Report Number(s): DOE/FE/15086-1; ON: DE82015149
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALCOHOL FUEL CELLS
ALCOHOLS
ARCTIC OCEAN
ARCTIC REGIONS
COST
DESIGN
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL CELL POWER PLANTS
FUEL CELLS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
MARITIME TRANSPORT
METHANOL
MINERAL RESOURCES
NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
NATURAL GAS FIELDS
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN
POLAR REGIONS
POWER PLANTS
POWER RANGE 10-100 MW
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
RESOURCES
SEAS
SHIPS
SUBMARINES
SURFACE WATERS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
TANKER SHIPS
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