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Fuel Appendix #37

Open mensreaMC opened 10 years ago

mensreaMC commented 10 years ago

INTRO

The purpose of this appendix is to outline the total amount of energy in the form of kilowatt hours that can be squeezed from various amounts of fuel. All thermal power plants, however, burn these fuels at varying efficiencies so their given values under their respective articles will be anywhere from 40 to 80% lower than listed figures. Higher heating BTU values were used to derive the following information and the total BTU's were divided by 3413 (the amount of BTU's in a kilowatt hour). Further, due to extensive research into this field I have decided to exclude blended fuels (E85, gasohol) due to the fact that their values are basically the same as ethanol and gasoline.

DETAILS

I.key A.barrel is 42 gallons B.tank is 1000 cubic ft C.unit is 31 pounds 1.rationale being that a stack of units should weigh about a ton in most cases

II.fuels A.crude oil 1.40.5 kw/gallon 2.1702 kw/barrel 3.i will work off the assumption that "crude oil" is light sweet crude

B.gasoline 1.36.4 kw/gallon 2.1530 kw/barrel

C.diesel 1.40.25 kw/gallon 2.1690 kw/barrel

D.ethanol 1.24.7 kw/gallon 2.1040 kw/barrel

E.biodiesel 1.37.49 kw/gallon 2.1574 kw/barrel 3."Methyl ester (biodiesel, BD)" in source 1

F.fuel oil

G.kerosene 1.39 kw/gallon 2.1648 kw/barrel

H.natural gas 1.288 kw/tank

I.propane 1.744 kw/tank 2.LPG has almost the exact same value as propane so i will combine the two

J.biogas 1.216 kw/tank 2.biogas is a not a defined grade so we are working off the assumption it is 25% less energy dense than natural gas

K.syngas

L.hydrogen 1.427 kw/tank

M.coal 1.102 kw/unit 2.6528 kw/stack of units

N.wood 1.76.3 kw/unit 2.4886 kw/stack of units

O.biomass 1.70.68 kw/unit 2.4523 kw/stack of units 3."Herbaceous biomass (dry basis)" in source 1

P.waste 1.5.5 kw/unit 2.352 kw/stack of units 3.figure derived from an article which detailed how much energy a waste fired power plant in Maryland produced

IDEAS

-add methanol -cover the values for fuel oil and syngas IF they are even worth it -add rainbows, red fairy sprinkles, monkey butts, dancing unicorns, "lava", and other typical things used by other tech mods/vanilla MC -hahahahahahahaha jk

SOURCES

  1. btu HHV's http://cta.ornl.gov/bedb/appendix_a/Lower_and_Higher_Heating_Values_of_Gas_Liquid_and_Solid_Fuels.pdf
  2. ft3 of propane in a gallon http://www.ct.gov/drs/cwp/view.asp?a=1511&q=267170
  3. GE paper on gas turbine fuels http://www.ge-energy.com/content/multimedia/_files/downloads/Fuel%20Flexibility%20White%20Paper.pdf
mensreaMC commented 10 years ago

REVISION 1 -fixed up some things, added more sources -added my thoughts on magic fairy dust, dancing unicorns, "lava", dragon winkles and other forms of power generation commonly employed in "tech" mods...