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Accession Number:
ADA067463
Title:
Coal Energy Conversion Options for Navy Bases.
Corporate Author:
BECHTEL NATIONAL INC SAN FRANCISCO CA
Report Date:
1979-03-01
Abstract:
An overview evaluation of technologies through which coal may replace oil or gas as the primary fuel at Navy bases was performed. Four technologies for manufacturing and utilizing synthetic fuels were considered commercial. These were low-Btu gas, medium-Btu gas, synthetic natural gas SNG, and methyl fuel. These technologies were compared with boilers firing cleaned coal or Western coal and with boilers plus scrubbers firing high sulfur Eastern coal. the comparisons were made for a Navy base with a single central 250 x 1,000,000 Btuhr boiler station, and for four other Navy base configurations with decentralized boilers. The clean coal firing technology led to lower costs than the synthetic fuel technologies in all cases. Medium-Btu gas offers lower costs than coal-fired boilers plus scrubbers in the most decentralized scenario. Fluidized bed combustion, judged to be a future technology, appears to be the lowest cost technology in central plants. Future environmental regulations may preclude burning cleaned or Western coals without SO2 removal. Author
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. for period ending Dec 78,
Pages:
0117
Contract Number:
N68305-78-C-0036
File Size:
0.00MB
