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Research areas:
- Conversion of coal and/or biomass (with CCS) to:
Electricity Hydrogen Synthetic liquid transportation fuels Substitute natural gas (SNG)
- Novel technologies, e.g. H2 separation membrane reactors - Carbon policy to drive low carbon technologies - Baseload wind power via CAES
Our Research
Seek to discover the lowest cost technologies and systems that provide environmentally-friendly:
- electricity, - transportation fuels, - heating.
Model the performance and economics of competing systems within the relevant parameter space, e.g.
- CO2 emissions price, - oil price.
Identify economically attractive systems Formulate policies that will steer society toward the environmentally favorable (but economical) solutions.
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CBTLRC
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- Includes emissions from coal & biomass production, FTL production FTL use in vehicle
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Chp. 6 Renewable Energy Generation Technologies Chp. 7 Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Chp. 8 Reference Scenarios
Current Track Carbon-constrained track
Gas Cleanup
High-Value Products
Combined Cycle Power Block
CO2 Storage
Coal Pet Coke Oil Residue Biomass Wastes
H2O SULFUR RECOVERY
Marketable Byproducts Sulfur Slag
CO, H2, H2S, H2O, CO2
Electricity Steam
Gas & Steam Turbines
DME MeOH
MOGD
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Miscellaneous
- Feedstock type, gasifier, synthesis reactor catalyst and design
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Liquid fuels:
Capital cost ($ per bbl/day) LCOF ($/GJ LHV, $/gal gasoline equiv.) Break even crude oil price (BEOP) IRR
Key parameters:
- CO2 emissions price - Crude oil price - Other: feedstock prices, capacity factor, etc.
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C = overnight cost (OC) of plant component, S = component scale Co = OC of a single train of a reference component of size So n = the number of equally sized equipment trains operating at a capacity of 100%/n f = the cost scaling factor e (= 0.9) = cost scaling exponent for multiple trains
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* Based on: Cost and Performance Comparison Baseline for Fossil Energy Power Plants, Volume 1: Bituminous Coal and Natural Gas to Electricity, DOE/NETL-401/053106, Final Report, May, 2007
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Indices normalized to equal 100 in 2000; Handy-Whitman Index specific to Steam Power Plants
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IGCC capital costs in 2007 NETL Power Study are higher than those in 2005 MIT Coal Report
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Coal+Biomass-to-Liquids (CBTL-RC)
FTL - Breakeven Carbon Prices
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Future Work
Add coal+biomass to SNG
- Heating sector
Any Ideas?
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