Energy and cost savings results for advanced technology systems from the Cogeneration Technology Alternatives Study /CTAS/

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979 · AIAA Pap.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1979-1000· OSTI ID:6905595

Sagerman, G D; Barna, G J; Burns, R K

The Cogeneration Technology Alternatives Study (CTAS), a program undertaken to identify the most attractive advanced energy conversion systems for industrial cogeneration applications in the 1985-2000 time period, is described, and preliminary results are presented. Two cogeneration options are included in the analysis: a topping application, in which fuel is input to the energy conversion system which generates electricity and waste heat from the conversion system is used to provide heat to the process, and a bottoming application, in which fuel is burned to provide high temperature process heat and waste heat from the process is used as thermal input to the energy conversion system which generates energy. Steam turbines, open and closed cycle gas turbines, combined cycles, diesel engines, Stirling engines, phosphoric acid and molten carbonate fuel cells and thermionics are examined. Expected plant level energy savings, annual energy cost savings, and other results of the economic analysis are given, and the sensitivity of these results to the assumptions concerning fuel prices, price of purchased electricity and the potential effects of regional energy use characteristics is discussed.

• Research Organization: NASA, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
• DOE Contract Number: AI01-77ET13111
• OSTI ID: 6905595
• Journal Information: AIAA Pap.; (United States), Journal Name: AIAA Pap.; (United States) Vol. 79-1000; ISSN AAPRA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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