MIUS technology evaluation: preliminary subsystem recommendations for near-term concepts. [Assemblage of MIUS using available technology]
The Modular Integrated Utility System (MIUS) Program, under the overall direction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is directed towards the development, demonstration, evaluation, and ultimate widespread application of a new option for providing utility services to communities. The MIUS concept is to provide developing communities with energy, water, and sanitary services from a combined onsite utility plant. A total-system approach is used to balance the requirements for environmental quality, conservation of resources, and low total cost. The analysis reported herein is one of a series of evaluations of utility technologies applicable to MIUS. A few examples of what major components and subsystems might be incorporated into a typical MIUS are described and discussed, together with possible methods of integration. Maximum effort has been made to include all possible community services; power generation, space heating and cooling, domestic hot water, potable water, fire-protection water, and liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal. In some of the examples cited complete thermal integration has not been obtained, and in certain cases integration of the liquid waste subsystem is merely the use of treated effluents for fire-protection or cooling tower makeup. The final selection of the various subsystems used in a MIUS will depend on the climate, population density, total population, consumer mix and demands, local geology and topography, and local resources such as water, natural gas, oil, and land. Schematic diagrams are provided of several MIUS configurations; however, it must be pointed out that these are not necessarily the ''optimum'' or ''best'' configurations. The main purpose of this report is to illustrate how MIUS can be assembled using available technologies, and some of the alternate possibilities. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 7363663
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/HUD/MIUS-17
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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