Coal Energy Conversion Options for Navy Bases.
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 Btu/hr 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)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA067463
Entities
People
- A. I. Mccone
- J. D. Ruby
- J. W. Dolloff
- T. P. Chen
- Y. J. Yim