Technical and Economic Feasibility of the Ocean Thermal Differences Process as a Solar-Driven Energy Process.

摘要

Results have been added to substantiate technical and economic feasibility of the ocean thermal differences process practiced along the southeast coast of the United States in tehe Gulf Stream. The complete thermal cycle has been integrated into both a complex computer simulation and an abbreviated simulation. One attempt has been made toward a 33variable optimum solution program. The heat transfer correlation used is conservative and is thought to reflect film and fouling conditions typical in clean sea water. The turbine has set the sized of the optimal power package:the power package condenser then sets size and shape of containment,and the total system evolves from that nucleus. The system baseline configuration method is being employed with perturbations in all subsystems and components related back to the baseline. The next steps evaluate off-design point operations and their effect on baseline configuration. (Modified author abstract)