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Economics of geothermal direct-heat applications

Description: Cost and production data from five commercial-scale geothermal direct-heat application projects are reviewed. Unit costs of geothermal energy under a variety of assumptions about production levels, costs, tax treatment, financial structure, and cost of capital are calculated and compared to prices of conventional fuels which would be displaced over the life of a geothermal project. Geothermal energy is found to be less costly than distillate fuel oil for all cases examined and cheaper than natu… more
Date: October 1, 1981
Creator: Hederman, W.F. Jr. & Cohen, L.A.
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Preliminary economic evaluation of a process for the production of fuel grade ethanol by enzymatic hydrolysis of an agricultural waste

Description: This study concerns the preliminary economic feasibility of a process for converting agricultural waste (wheat straw) to fuel grade ethanol through enzymatic hydrolysis. A preliminary design for the process was developed on the basis of research concepts described in the literature. The base case design is for a 25 million gal/yr plant for 95 vol % ethanol from wheat straw. The preliminary design included material and energy balances and major equipment specifications and sizing, which in turn … more
Date: January 1, 1978
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures

Description: The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential governmental participants in resource development, industrial users of thermal energy, current government incentives bearing on geopressured-geothermal development, six profiles for utilization of the geopressu… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K. & Vanston, J.H. Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital requirements for the transportation of energy materials: 1979 ARC estimates. Draft final report

Description: This report contains TERA's estimates of capital requirements to transport natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products, and coal in the United States by 1990. The low, medium, and high world-oil-price scenarios from the EIA's Mid-range Energy Forecasting System (MEFS), as used in the 1979 Annual Report to Congress (ARC), were provided as a basis for the analysis and represent three alternative futures. TERA's approach varies by energy commodity to make best use of the information and analytical … more
Date: August 13, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Technical program plan, Basalt Waste Isolation Project

Description: The Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) program as administered by the DOE's Richland Operations Office and Rockwell Hanford Operations is described. The objectives, scope and scientific technologies are discussed. The work breakdown structure of the project includes: project management and support, systems integration, geosciences, hydrology, engineered barriers, test facility design and construction, engineering testing, repository studies, and schedules. The budget of the program incl… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of efficiency indicators of urban public transportation systems. Final report

Description: This report presents the efforts of a research project on efficiency problems of urban public transportation systems (UPTS). Three test regions were selected in an effort to discover, clarify, and understand the efficiency relationships within UPTS. The test regions vary from a small one-mode region to a large multi-mode region. The UPTS are first divided into three major system components, i.e., primary services, support functions, and the network. Then each system is divided by mode, and each… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Tomazinis, A.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Artscapes: Community Perceptions of City Beautification through Murals in Denton, Texas

Description: Keep Denton Beautiful (KDB) is inspired by Keep America Beautiful's model of community engagement to create a clean, beautiful, and vibrant city. The community mural initiative, Artscapes, aims to enliven public spaces, abate graffiti, and inspire community members to keep Denton, Texas, clean and beautiful. The goals of this research project are to understand the impact of Artscapes initiative, community perceptions of public art, and find ways KDB can better align future mural projects with t… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Robertson, Lindsey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Los Alamos transuranic waste size reduction facility

Description: To facilitate disposal of transuranic (TRU) waste, Los Alamos National Laboratory designed and constructed the Size Reduction Facility (SRF) during the period 1977 to 1981. This report summarizes the engineering development, installation, and early test operations of the SRF. The facility incorporates a large stainless steel enclosure fitted with remote handling and cutting equipment to obtain an estimated 4:1 volume reduction of gloveboxes and other bulky metallic wastes.
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Briesmeister, A.; Harper, J.; Reich, B. & Warren, J.L.
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Capital Requirements Estimating Model (CREMOD) for electric utilities. Volume II. User's manual. [For each year up to 1990]

Description: This volume, Vol. II, describes specific data requirements and operating procedures for CREMOD. When CREMOD is accessed by the user, its program control module requests the user to choose which one of the following seven alternative model functions s/he wishes to use: (1) Compute Capital Requirements (CCR); (2) Display BUILD Limits (DBL); (3) Revise/Display Plant Type Master File (RMF); (4) Revise/Display Capital Coefficients (RCC); (5) Revise/Display Capital Expenditure Profiles (RCE); (6) Dis… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Collins, D E; Gammon, J & Shaw, M L
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital Requirements Estimating Model (CREMOD) for electric utilities. Volume III. User's manual appendices: program and input data listings. [For each year up to 1990]

Description: This volume, Vol. 3, is an extension of Vol. 2, User's Manual, containing listings of the computer program and input data for the model in two appendices. It serves the user as a reference guide to the computer model. This documentation complies with the Interim Model Document Standards issued by the Office of Analysis, Oversight, and Access of the Energy Information Administration in December 1978.
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Collins, D E; Gammon, J & Shaw, M L
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fourth update of the Energy Economic Data Base (EEDB) Program. Phase IV, Final report. Volume I

Description: EEDB deals with the development of cost data for nuclear and comparison electric power plants. Its objective is to provide periodic updates of technical and cost (capital, fuel and operating and maintenance) information for use in evaluating and monitoring US civilian nuclear power programs. It contains six nuclear power plant technical models and five comparison coal-fired fossil power plant technical models. (DLC)
Date: September 1, 1981
Creator: Allen, R.E.; Brown, P.E.; Kaminski, R.S.; Smith, M.H. & Ziegler, E.J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District heating and cooling systems for communities through power plant retrofit distribution network. Phase 2. Final report, 1 March 1980-31 January 1984

Description: The potential for district heating was examined in terms of a total (regional) system and two subsystems of overlapping scales. The basis of the economic analysis of district heating was that the utility's electric and gas customers would not be economically burdened by the implementation of district heating, and that any incremental costs due to district heating (e.g. district heating capital and operating costs, replacement electric power, abandonment of unamortized gas mains) would be charge… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy study of rail passenger transportation. Volume 1. Executive summary

Description: The results and conclusions of the study by SRI treats the following topics: physical assets and services of rail passenger systems; energy demands and intensities; roles of local institutions; the industry future; and the role of the Federal government. Data reported were collected in 1976 and 1977, and in most cases, cover calendar year 1975.
Date: August 1979
Creator: Henderson, Clark
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy and cost analysis of commercial building shell characteristics and operating schedules

Description: Eight prototypical commercial buildings were considered, and estimates of the energy savings realized from various conservation measures are presented. For each of four building types (hospital, office, educational, and retail) two building designs representative of both pre- and post-embargo construction were analyzed. The ongoing program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to develop an engineering-economic model to forecast annual energy use in the US commercial sector. This particular stu… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Johnson, W.S. & Pierce, F.E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GELCOM: a geothermal levelized busbar cost model. Description and user's guide

Description: The model described is designed to project the costs of electricity generated from liquid dominated hydrothermal resources. It is presented in the form of an interactive computer program called GELCOM, written in Fortran IV, together with an analytic explanation of the methodology. GELCOM starts from resource data and estimates the capital and operating costs for the production field and electrical generating plant. The methodology implemented in GELCOM to determine the engineering cost, operat… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Gupta, J.N. & Leigh, J.G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Variable pressure supercritical Rankine cycle for integrated natural gas and power production from the geopressured geothermal resource

Description: A small-scale power plant cycle that utilizes both a variable pressure vaporizer (heater) and a floating pressure (and temperature) air-cooled condenser is described. Further, it defends this choice on the basis of classical thermodynamics and minimum capital cost by supporting these conclusions with actual comparative examples. The application suggested is for the geopressured geothermal resource. The arguments cited in this application apply to any process (petrochemical, nuclear, etc.) invol… more
Date: March 1, 1982
Creator: Goldsberry, F.L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Costs of using crop residues in direct combustion applications

Description: The economic feasibility of burning crop residues for on-farm grain drying, grain drying at a grain elevator, and electricity generation at a utility are examined. Following dramatic price increases for petroleum during 1979, grain drying is the most economically attractive alternative studied. For on-farm applications, a typical 400-acre grain harvest would consume nearly 5,500 gallons of propane to dry 52,000 bushels of corn from 22% moisture content wet basis (MCWB) to 15% MCWB. Fuel savings… more
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Flaim, S. & Urban, D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal power plant investment decisions. Interim report, June 1-November 30, 1979

Description: Investment decisions for financing the construction of geothermal power plants are discussed. Discussed here are the investment objectives of investor-owned electric utilities, municipal electric utilities, and potential third party financiers as determined from extensive reviews of literature, executive interviews and responses to mailed surveys. The framework is provided for a computerized quantitative decision model currently being developed at Technecon for investment and policy analysis ap… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Cassel, T. A. V.; Amundsen, C. B.; Edelstein, R. H. & Blair, P. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic incentive of geothermal resource development for direct applications

Description: As part of a mission-oriented program for accelerating the commercialization of geothermal energy, research is sponsored which concerns the quantitative analysis of investment decisions by industries involved in the development of geothermal resources. The results of a quick-response study conducted during the course of this research are discussed. The report specifically compares the relative investment incentive offered by two categories of geothermal ventures: (a) geothermal electric power p… more
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Cassel, T.A.V. & Amundsen, C.B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital Requirements Estimating Model (CREMOD) for electric utilities. Volume I. Methodology description, model, description, and guide to model applications. [For each year up to 1990]

Description: The Capital Requirements Estimating Model for the Electric Utilities (CREMOD) is a system of programs and data files used to estimate the capital requirements of the electric utility industry for each year between the current one and 1990. CREMOD disaggregates new electric plant capacity levels from the Mid-term Energy Forecasting System (MEFS) Integrating Model solution over time using actual projected commissioning dates. It computes the effect on aggregate capital requirements of dispersal o… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Collins, D E; Gammon, J & Shaw, M L
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial incentives research and lending market impact analysis

Description: The U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration has been authorized by recent legislation to enter into loan guaranty and interest assistance agreements related to specific energy programs. These loan guaranty programs are designed to encourage the private sector to participate in the development of alternative energy sources and the conservation of energy. Two programs are currently authorized: one dealing with geothermal energy; the other dealing with electric and hybrid vehicles. A t… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Smith, R. F.; Bryant, P. S.; Cour, E. E. & Kouchoukos, P. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel Gas Demonstration Plant Program: Small-Scale Industrial Project. Commercial plant design and economic evaluation, Phase I. Interim report

Description: This report contains the description of a proposed Commercial Coal Gasification Plant to be built for Erie Mining Company at Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. It also contains a Capital Cost Estimate for the plant and examines the economics of the plant operations. A Commercial Plant to utilize Eastern coal can be built at a capital cost of $95.8 million based on 1978 costs. This plant, utilizing Eastern coal costing $40 per ton, must sell low Btu gas at $6.64 per million Btu to produce a 12% internal rat… more
Date: December 1, 1978
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Management of solid waste

Description: Compliance with the latest regulatory requirements addressing disposal of radioactive, hazardous, and sanitary solid waste requires the application of numerous qualitative and quantitative criteria in the selection, design, and operation of solid waste management facilities. Due to the state of flux of these regulatory requirements from EPA and NRC, several waste management options were identified as being applicable to the management of the various types of solid waste. This paper highlights t… more
Date: April 16, 1980
Creator: Thompson, W.T. & Stinton, L.H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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