Techno-Economic Analysis of a Sustainable Coal, Wind, and Nuclear Hybrid Energy System

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• 作者：Kyle L. BuchheitJoseph D. Smith ; Uday Guntupalli ; Chen Chen
• 刊名：Energy & Fuels
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 15, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：30
• 期：12
• 页码：10721-10729
• 全文大小：483K
• ISSN：1520-5029

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The availability of cheap electricity is one of the biggest factors for improving quality of life. The push for large-scale renewable sources of energy has met problems with regards to energy storage and availability. The proposed coal, wind, and nuclear hybrid energy system would combine a renewable energy source, wind, with the traditional and stable energy sources coal and nuclear to create an integrated, resilient, and sustainable system. A next generation small modular nuclear reactor is considered together with a pressurized circulating fluidized bed coal combustion system which also utilizes biomass as a feedstock. This system employs a coelectrolysis unit for utilization of carbon dioxide as a feedstock for the production of synthetic gas and subsequently fuels and chemicals. A techno-economic analysis of the proposed system was performed along with a thermodynamic analysis of overall efficiency and sustainability.