Cogeneration Technology Alternatives Study (CTAS). General Electric Company final report. Volume VI: computer data. Part 1: coal-fired nocogeneration process boiler

Technical Report · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:7151869

Knightly, W F

Large savings can be made in industry by cogenerating electric power and process heat in single energy conversion systems rather than separately in utility plants and in process boilers. This study examines the use of various advanced energy conversion systems and compares them with each other and with current technology systems for their savings in fuel energy, costs, and emissions in individual plants and on a national level. About fifty industrial processes from the largest energy consuming sectors were used as a basis for matching a similar number of energy conversion systems that are considered as candidates which can be made available by the 1985 to 2000 time period. The sectors considered included foods, textiles, lumber, paper, chemicals, petroleum, glass, and primary metals. The energy conversion systems included steam and gas turbines, diesels, thermionics, Stirling, closed-cycle and steam injected gas turbines, and fuel cells. Fuels considered were coal, both coal and petroleum-based residual and distillate liquid fuels, and low Btu gas obtained through the on-site gasification of coal. An attempt was made to use consistent assumptions and a consistent set of groundrules specified by NASA for determining performance and cost. Volume VI contains computer generated reports of the fuel consumption and savings, capital costs, economics and emissions of the cogeneration energy conversion systems (ECS's) heat and power matched to the individual industrial processes. National fuel and emissions savings are also reported for each ECS assuming it alone is implemented. Two nocogeneration base cases are included: coal-fired and residual-fired process boilers.

• Research Organization: General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA). Corporate Research and Development Dept.
• DOE Contract Number: AI01-77ET13111
• OSTI ID: 7151869
• Report Number(s): DOE/NASA/0031-80/6(Pt.1)(Sect.A); NASA-CR-159770(Pt.1)(Sect.A)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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