System Study on the Feasibility of a Coal-Fired Total-Energy Plant (With Solar Options) for Sandia Laboratories.

摘要

A preliminary assessment is presented of the technical and economic feasibility of a coal-fired total-energy onsite plant that could furnish much of the thermal electrical power requirements of the Department of Energy's facilities in Albuquerque,NM;namely,the Albuquerque Operations Office,Sandia Area Office,and Sandia Laboratories. Because of Sandia's active role in solar-energy research,development,and project management,this study also includes a conceptual design and analysis of a solar-energy system that could be used with the coal-fired plant as a solar-total-energy system experiment. In general,the analysis indicate that a coal-fired total energy system is economically feasible. Further,the solar supplement to the coal-fired system can be an effective utilization of solar energy. However,the cost of the energy from the solar supplement will be from $7 MBTU to $13 MBTU depending on the solar supplement system used. (ERA citation 04:023470)