# Presentation: 194306

## The Latest on Combined Heat and Power 

**FUPWG **
**Bob DeVault**
**May 12 , 2005**

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## Raise CHP Awareness
Eliminate Regulatory and Institutional Barriers
Develop CHP Markets and Technologies

- Eliminate Regulatory and Institutional Barriers
- Develop CHP Markets and Technologies

-     Our CHP activities are guided by the actions identified in the _National CHP Roadmap_ as those items required of us to meet the CHP Goal

- CHP Vision and Technology Roadmap

**By 2010****, ****double**** ****the amount of CHP capacity in the United States**
**1998, 46GW                                                                     2010, 92GW**

## Mission

- Prime Movers (industrial gas turbine, reciprocating engines, microturbines)

- Thermally activated technologies (chillers, desiccants)

- Integrated Energy Systems
- (providing cooling, heating, electricity, dehumidification)

**Before**

**After**

- _Onsite Generation Systems_
- Microturbines – 30 – 300 kW
- Reciprocating engines – 300 – 3 MW
- Turbines – 2 – 10 MW

- Develop the next generation of clean, efficient, reliable, and affordable DE Technologies and integrate into end use sites.
- Capture waste thermal energy to increase efficiency (greater than 70%) for heating and cooling of buildings

- Advanced Materials and Sensors

## Thermally-Activated Technologies Are Key to Improving Overall Efficiency of DE

## ORNL –Partnering to get results!

**Industry Manufacturers**

**Suppliers & Systems Integrators  **

**Universities & Labs**

##   Advanced Heat Transfer Laboratory

- ORNL is developing advanced heat exchanger testing capabilities
- Design effort to enable more widespread use of TATs by reducing the size, weight, and cost of heat exchangers for waste heat utilization
- Establish partnerships with utilities, manufacturers, and research laboratories

##           Heat Transfer Diagnostics

- ORNL will employ advanced techniques for evaluating improved heat exchanger designs
- Thermal imaging
- Phosphor paint
- High-speed photography

## Summary of DE activities at ORNL

**Support the Office of Distributed Energy**
**ORNL DE research is consistent with DOE mission**
**Communicate regularly with DOE HQ**
**Develop strong partnerships with industry, academia, and laboratories**
**Research is leading to results!**
**Higher efficiencies**
**Reduced emissions**
**Cost savings**
**Support the electric grid**

## Integrated Energy Systems 
combinations of dissimilar subsystems designed or assembled so they work together with higher efficiency and/or lower cost than they would operate individually
Overcome regulatory, institutional, and market barriers 
Packaged systems—“plug and play”
 Modular components factory tested and integrated easing field installation
Develop model integrated energy systems having 70% efficiency with at least 4 year payback that are easily replicable

**combinations of dissimilar subsystems designed or assembled so they work together with higher efficiency and/or lower cost than they would operate individually**
**Overcome regulatory, institutional, and market barriers **
**Packaged systems—“plug and play”**
** ****Modular components factory tested and integrated easing field installation**
**Develop model integrated energy systems having 70% efficiency with at least 4 year payback that are easily replicable**

- DOE Awarded $19 Million For Integrated Energy Systems in 2001

## Large Scale Modular IES

**Gas Technology Institute**** ****(Waukesha, Trane, Ballard Engineering, Charles Equipment, University of Illinois)**
**Engine generator (290 kW to 770 kW) integrated with absorption chillers. **

**Honeywell Laboratories**
**(Broad USA, Chelsea Group, I.C. Thomasson)**
**5 MW turbine generator integrated with 1,000 RT waste-heat absorption chiller at Fort Bragg**

**Burns and McDonnell**** ****(Broad USA, Solar Turbines, Austin Energy)**
**5MW turbine generator integrated with 2,000 RT of waste-heat and 500 RT of waste/direct fired absorption cooling.**

## Honeywell Operating and Testing Integrated Energy System (IES)

**Honeywell Operating and Testing Integrated Energy System (IES)**

**Ft. Bragg $11-million on-site energy system saves $1.8M/yr:  **
**5-MW Solar turbine, **
**80,000lb/hr HRSG, and**
**exhaust-fired Broad 1000-ton absorption chiller**
**ASERTTI long-term testing protocol guides data acquisition**
**Reference designs span 1.5 - 5.7 MW system configurations**
**Optimization software informs operators of low-cost operating scenario **
**Provision of reliable power to base**

## Burns & McDonnell installs Modular IES at Austin Energy Site

**$8.35M**** o****n-site energy system commissioned in June 2004:**
**4.5-MW Solar turbine, **
**exhaust-fired Broad 2,500-ton absorption chiller**
**CY05 data acquisition uses ASERTTI long-term testing protocol**
**Modular construction:**
**promotes replicability, **
**reduces capital and installation cost **
**Improves system optimization and operability**

## Austin Energy and Burns & McDonnell team on Prototype IES

- Austin Energy and Burns & McDonnell team on Prototype IES

- Largest system to use turbine exhaust to directly fire 2,500 RT absorption chiller
- Reduce cost with modular design and prefabricated construction at two sites:
- Mixed-use site with 1.2M-ft2 office, retail, industrial and residential space with 15-MW base load
- Modular system being designed and constructed for Dell Children’s Hospital
- Power supports utility grid on request
- Data demonstrates 80% (HHV) fuel use efficiency

- Dell Children’s
- Hospital

- 5 MW Solar Turbine installed
- at Domain (mixed-use site)

## GTI Testing IES Engine Driven System in Laboratory 

**GTI is verifying that procedures, uncertainty limits and stability criteria are reasonable.**
**Testing Waukesha engine module per ASERTTI laboratory protocol.**
**Will be testing 375kW Hess Unit per UL 3200.**
**Working with A2LA for ISO certification and testing.**

-   GTI will document all findings and recommend any needed changes to the ASERTTI protocol when finished.

## Small Scale Modular IES (30-600kW)

**NiSource**
**Multiple microturbines integrated with absorption chillers, desiccant units, and control system developed as standardized model for Hotel/Motel**** **

## Small Scale Modular IES (30-600kW)

**(AMTI, Energy Concepts)**
**70kW microturbine integrated with ammonia-water absorption refrigeration for space conditioning and refrigeration**

**UTRC/Capstone ****[Pure Comfort]**
**-****combination of off the shelf components for packaged system **
**-Capstone 60 Microturbines coupled with Carrier absorption chillers.  Also considering refrigeration, desiccants, and thermal storage systems**

- Small Scale Modular IES (30-600kW)

## UTC Power PureComfort TM 240M Rooftop Installed at A&P Fresh Market

**Packaged IES reduces energy & energy cost**
**First rooftop unit**
**First skid-mounted complete packaged IES product**
**57,000 sq. ft. A&P Supermarket, Mt. Kisco, NY**
**Multiple PureComfort TM units installed at Ronald Regan Library**

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## DOE/DE IES Enabled ProductPureComfort 240

**Lower fuel use, NOx , and **
**greenhouse gas emissions**

## ORNL 2004 Solicitation

**The procurement sought proposals for projects that utilized pre-engineered, packaged Integrated Energy Systems (IES) that both generate electricity and make effective use of the thermal energy produced**
**Target market sectors for this procurement were:**
**Healthcare**
**Educational facilities**
**Hotels**
**Supermarkets**
**Projects were to demonstrate replicability and high efficiency IES packages**

## Integrated Energy Systems

**Integrated (i.e., packaged, pre-engineered) CHP projects**
**Four target end-use areas: healthcare, education, hotels, & supermarkets**
**Minimum 50% cost share**
**Three year project duration**
**25 to 5500 kWe net output**
**>70% efficiency and <4 yr payback**
**50 proposals received – 9 installations selected**

## Current IES Projects Target Various 

**Verizon**

**Current IES Projects Target Various **
**Commercial/Institutional Market Sectors**

**200 Market St.**
**Austin Energy**

**Butler Hospital***
**Eastern Maine***
**Metropolitan Hospital***
**United Nursing Home***

**Ramapo College***
**University of Maryland**
**Gas Technology Institute   **

** ****Pepperell High School***

**Cinemark**

**Quality Inn **
**Hilton**
**Ritz Carlton***
**Sheraton***
**W. Hotel – NYC***

**Raley’s ***
**HEB**
**A&P**
**Ingersol Rand**

***FY04 Solicitation**

## New Projects for Packaged IES Demonstrations

**Hotels and Supermarket**
**GTI – Ritz Carlton Hotel (CA)**
**Energy Concepts - Sheraton Hotel (CA)**
**TIAX – Supermarket (CA)**

**Healthcare**
**Eastern Maine Medical Center (ME)**
**Butler Hospital (RI)**
**Novi Energy – Metropolitan Hospital (MI)**

**Educational Facilities**
**GTI -**** ****Ramapo College (NJ)**
**SEMCO - Pepperell High School (GA)**

**Utilities**
**GTI-Basin Electric**

**Ritz Carlton**

**Butler Hospital**

**Ramapo College**

## Healthcare Sector

_**Butler Hospital**_ (Providence, RI)
- UTC Pure Comfort System ( 4 – C60 microturbines) with 110-ton absorption chiller
- Partners: UTC Power, Carrier Corporation, Witham & Associates, New England Gas,  CDH Energy

_**Eastern Maine Medical Center**_ (Bangor, ME)
- Gas Turbine (4.4 MW) to generate 24,000 lb/hr of steam and drive a 500-ton absorption chiller.
- Partners: Solar Turbines, Cianbro Corp., Vanderweil Engineers, Univ. of Maine, IDEA

_**Metropolitan Hospital**_ (Grand Rapids, MI)
- Novi Energy
- Reciprocating engines (2 MW) with an absorption chiller.
- Partners: Inland Detroit Diesel, GE Jenbacher, Honeywell, Stanley Consultants, Workstage, and NTH Consultants.

## Educational Facilities

_**Pepperell High School**_ (Floyd County, GA)
- SEMCO
- Reciprocating engine (200 kW) coupled with four, classroom, integrated active desiccant HVAC systems
- Partners: C&M Engineering, Floyd County Schools, and  Hess Microgen

_**Ramapo College**_** (**Mahwah, NJ)
- GTI
- Reciprocating engines (1.6 MW) to generate steam and operate an absorption chiller.
- Partners: Preventive Maintenance Services, CDH Energy Corp., Public Service Electric and Gas, Attainment Technologies, Monsen Engineering, Ramapo College of New Jersey

## Hotels and Supermarkets

_**Ritz Carton Hotel**_, San Francisco, CA
- GTI
- UTC Pure Comfort System (4 C-60 microturbines) and 110 ton absorption chiller.
- Partners: UTC Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Carrier Commercial Systems

_**Sheraton Hotel Complex**__ (_Rancho Mirage, CA)
- Energy Concepts Company
- Reciprocating engine (200 kW) + a microturbine (250 kW) and absorption chillers.
- Partners: Shenandoah Springs Village, Desert Power Partners, and Ingersoll-Rand.

_**Raley’s Supermarket**__  (Loomis, CA)_
- TIAX LLC
- Reciprocating engine (280 kW) with absorption cooling  Partners are Hess Microgen

## Utilities

_**Basin Electric**_ (Flasher, ND)
- Gas Technology Institute
- Pipeline Compressor station
- Gas Turbine with an Organic Rankine Cycle
- Provides power quality improvements to local hospital in remote location

## Regional Application Centers

**The regional application centers will promote combined heating and power (CHP) technology and practices, serve as a central repository and clearinghouse of CHP information, and identify and help implement regional CHP projects.   **

**Notes:**
Ours are truly “national programs”
Have accomplished much over the years
Capable of doing even more in the years ahead