Technical Review and Analysis of the Total Utility Demonstration Plant Design and Operational Concept.
Abstract
The total utilities concept involves the furnishing of all utilities to a facility from a single plant as a means of more efficiently using available energy from our fuel sources. These utilities would consist of all or part of the following: electricity, heating and air conditioning, water supply, sewage treatment, domestic hot water and trash disposal. The current practice is to obtain most of the above services from separate, non-affiliated corporate entities whose plants are widely separated and who have little incentive for cooperative action in waste energy utilization. Most electric generating plants, for example, are of large capacity and are remotely located so that even though vast waste energy quantities are available, the cost for collection, storage and distribution of such energy to consumers in prohibitive. Great amounts of energy are dissipated through cooling water, stack gases and power transmission which result in the loss of up to 60 percent of the energy initially available in the fuel. Another obvious resource waste is the practice of trash disposal through open burning, land fill or incineration without extraction and use of the considerable heat energy available.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA037016
Entities
People
- Nicholas M. Demetroulis