Integrating technologies to produce energy conservation

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6740052

Holtz, R E; Marciniak, T J

Urban energy systems are essentially designed to meet the electrical, heating, cooling, and miscellaneous energy demands of the community they serve. This paper briefly reviews each of the more prominent of the past, present, and perhaps the future technologies. The systems are discussed in the order of the time frame of their commercial availability. Current technologies available for use in an urban system are: diesel engines, gas and steam turbines, combined cycle plants, electrical generation, central chillers, boilers, heat pumps, thermal storage, and solid waste incineration. Technologies expected to be available between now and 1985 are fuel cells, closed cycle gas turbines, Organic Rankine Cycle Engines, ACES, electric compressed air storage, solid waste pyrolysis, methane production, solar thermal, and coal gasification and liquefaction. Advance technologies cited are: advanced Rankine cycle, Minto wheel, Stirling engines, electrochemical storage, advanced fuel cells, and solar photovoltaics. The paper continues with an analysis of a fuel cell based system, a heat pump centered system, and a Diesel engine based system. The addition of a pyrolysis unit which employs the refuse from the site, with the Diesel engine based system, is also examined. The use of integrated systems is contingent upon many factors including energy savings, capital, and fuel costs, refuse disposal costs, system reliability and maintainability, reliability of fuel source, and certainty of the estimated energy demand in the community. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6740052
• Report Number(s): CONF-780109-6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ANNUAL CYCLE ENERGY SYSTEM
COMMUNITIES
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
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ECONOMICS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SUPPLIES
EVALUATION
FLUIDS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
HYDROCARBONS
ICES
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METHANE
MIUS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POPULATIONS
POWER GENERATION
SOLID WASTES
TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION
TOTAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
URBAN AREAS
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
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