Status of Occidental Petroleum's Coal-Oil-Mixture Program: An Industrial-Boiler Retrofit. Technical Report

摘要

COM Energy Inc. will shortly begin operation of its one million barrel-per-year commercial demonstration plant at Jacksonville. COM will be distributed to industrial customers. Conventional coal grinding and blending are used for COM preparation. ORC has evaluated state-of-the-art stabilization techniques which have been incorporated in the plant. The economics for the use of COM as shown in Table I can provide a savings sufficient to justify the retrofit for the boiler and a ROI on the facility to produce COM. These numbers were developed to show the total cost difference between the cost of oil and the cost to produce COM which includes raw materials and production costs for a straight coal/oil mix with coal pulverized to 80% through 200 mesh. The COM contract will be similar to that for No. 6 oil with guarantees for Btu, sulfur, ash and viscosity. Limitations of liability will be similar to oil also, with a maximum liability equal to the cost of the product delivered. The COM price will be based on a dollar per barrel delivered and adjusted to equivalent oil Btu's on a monthly or quarterly basis. It is our conclusion that COM is producible, handleable, storable and burnable. The information is available to know what must be done to minimize retrofit cost and maximize economic savings by adjusting COM specifications for specific applications. Coal oil mixtures are ready to contribute dollars to the profit of each COM consuming plant. (ERA citation 06:035792)