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Document Number: 

137) VI-B-2 

Docket Number: 

A-83-27 

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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS, INC. VI-B-2 

1655 NORTH PORT MYER DRIVE ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22209 703/528-1900 _-- . - _ 

October 5, 1988 

Mr. Robert Pahel-Short 

Emission Standards Division (MD-13) 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27711 

Subject: EPA Contract No. 68-02-4384, Work Assignment No. 11 

Variability in the Sulfur Content of Distillate 

Fuel Oil 

Dear Robert: 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, 

"Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric 

Plants," is a record of each fuel purchase delivered to electric 

power generation plants with a fossil-fuel steam-electric 

installed nameplate capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. EEA has 

reviewed the 1987 annual summaries of this data (as published by 

DOE/EIA in Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Utility Plants 

1987. DOE/EIA-0191(87), July 1988) to estimate the distribution 

of the sulfur content of distillate (no. 2) fuel oil. Table 51 

reports the average sulfur content of all petroleum purchases. 

Table 52 reports the volumes of heavy (primarily no. 5 and 6 

fuel) oil and light (no. 2 fuel) oil purchases. 

Table 1 (attached) summarizes the volumes and average sulfur 

content of distillate fuel oil purchases at electric utility 

plants which did not purchase heavy oil in 1987 and which did not 

report the average sulfur content of petroleum purchases as 

"0.00". Table 1 shows that most of the distillate fuel oil 

purchases in 1987 in this sample had an average annual sulfur 

content which was less than 0.3 percent. 

Table 1 presents a large sample of distillate fuel oil purchases 

in 1987. Total purchases of no. 2 fuel oil in 1987 by electric 

utility plants was 7.3 million barrels. 

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Table 1 does not include electric utility plants which purchased 

residual and distillate fuel oil in 1987. Table 51 in the 

DOE/EIA publication reports the average sulfur content of all 

petroleum purchases. It is possible with other data on the 

sulfur content of residual fuel oil purchases in the DOE/EIA 

publication to roughly (but not accurately) estimate the sulfur 

content of distillate fuel oil purchases for electric utility 

plants which purchased residual and distillate fuel oil in 1987. 

However, the level of accuracy of this approach is not adequate 

to distinguish less than or equal to 0.3 from greater than 0.3 

percent sulfur (as is shown in Table 1) because the residual fuel 

oil sulfur content data were published with only a single digit 

to the right of the decimal point whereas the average sulfur 

content estimates from Table 51 were published with two decimal 

places. 

Please call me if you have any questions. 

Sincerely, 

Tim Hogan 

Attachment 

cc: Dr. A. Wehe 
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DISTILLATE FUEL OIL PURCHASES BY ELECTRIC UTILITIES 

IN 1987 

0.3% S or Less 0.31% S or More 

State Utility 

AL Alabama Electric Co. Inc. 

Alabama Power Co. 

Barry 

Gadsden 

Gorgas 2 & 3 

Greene 

Gaston 

James Miller 

Tennessee Valley Authority 

STATE TOTAL 

IO3 BBL 

5.0 

159.7 

_i§_ 

0.10 

29.1 

1.1 

28.5 

6.1 

20.7 

69.2 

0.22 

0.13 

0.18 

0.24 

0.17 

0.16 

IO3 BBL 

30.9 

30.9 

_1S_ 

0.50 

AZ Alamito Co. 

Arizona Public Service Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

7.2 

7.2 

0.16 

62.4 

62.4 

0.39 

AK Southwestern Elec. Power Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

10.0 

10.0 

0.06 

CO Colorado Ute Elec. Assn. Inc. 

Public Serv. Co. of Colorado 

Comanche 

Pawnee 

STATE TOTAL 

2.6 

2.6 

0.26 

9.9 

18.1 

28.0 

0.34 

0.64 

FL City of Fort Pierre 

Gulf Power Co. 

City of Lake Worth 

Tampa Electric Co. 

Gannon 

Big Bend 

Seminole Electric Corp. 

52.9 0.29 

0.5 

15.5 

8.3 

13.3 

42.0 

0.36 

0.45 

0.32 

0.32 

0.32 

STATE TOTAL 52.9 199.6 
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State Utility 

IL Central Illinois Light Co. 

Edwards 

Duck Creek 

Electric Energy Inc. 

STATE TOTAL 

IN Hoosier Energy REC Inc 

Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 35.3 

Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp. 2.6 

Northern Indiana Public Serv. Co. 

Public Service Co. of Indiana Inc. 141.8 

Southern Indiana Gas & Elec. Co. 

0.3* S or 

IO3 BBL 

7.5 

7.2 

7.9 

22.6 

15.3 

Less 

_SS_ 

0.26 

0.30 

0.30 

0.16 

0.31% S or More 

IO3 BBL %S 

0.30 

STATE TOTAL 195.0 

25.0 0.50 

11.8 0.39 

36.8 

IA City of Ames 6.7 0.30 

Iowa Electric Light & Power Co. 

Iowa Public Service Co. 

Iowa Southern Utilities Co. 7.5 0.04 

14.0 

30.3 

0.40 

0.31 

STATE TOTAL 14.2 44.3 

KS City of Kansas City 

Quindaro 

Nearman 

Kansas City Power & Light Co. 

7.8 

7.7 

57.4 

0.06 

0.03 

0.24 

STATE TOTAL 72.9 

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0.3% S or Less 0.31% S or More 

State Utility 

KY Tennessee Valley Authority 

Cincinnati Gas & Elec. Co. 

East Kentucky Power Co. 

Cooper 

Dale 

Spurlock 

Kentucky Utilities Co. 

Louisville Gas & Elec. Co. 

City of Owensboro 

STATE TOTAL 

IO3 BBL 

52.0 

_JS_ 

2.3 

1.8 

5.0 

9.7 

3.2 

0.13 

0.19 

0.20 

0.23 

0.28 

IO3 BBL 

55.6 

17.0 

48.4 

121.0 

0.50 

0.38 

0.40 

MS South Mississippi Elec. Power Assn. 7.1 

STATE TOTAL 7.1 

0.30 

MO Kansas City Power & Light Co. 

Montrose 12.9 

Iatan 

City of Sikeston 

STATE TOTAL 12.9 

0.28 

12.4 

4.1 

16.5 

0.33 

1.35 

MT Montana Power Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

55.0 

55.0 

0.01 

NE City of Grand Island 

Nebraska Public Power District 2.8 

STATE TOTAL 2.8 

0.28 

0.6 

0.6 

0.50 

NY New York State Elec. & Gas Corp. 58.2 

STATE TOTAL 58.2 

0.14 
P.7 

0.3% S or Less 0.31% S or More 

State Utility 

NC Carolina Power & Light Co. 

Duke Power Co. 

Allan 

Cliffside 

Marshall 

Belews Creek 

STATE TOTAL 

103 BBL 

133.4 

_1S_ 

0.20 

31.0 0.24 

14.0 0.30 

38.0 0.30 

49.0 0.30 

265.4 

IO3 BBL _iS_ 

ND Basin Electric Power Coop 

Leland Olds 

Antelope Valley 

Minnetonka Power Coop. Inc. 

4.8 

9.9 

9.0 

0.39 

0.34 

0.40 

OH 

OK 

Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

Cincinnati Gas & Elec. Co. 

Beckjord 

Miami Fort 

Dayton Power & Light Co. 

Stuart 

Storage Facility #1 

City of Hamilton 

Ohio Edison Co. 

Edgewater 

Gorge Stream 

Niles 

Burger 

Sammis 

Toronto 

Ohio Valley Elec. Corp. 

STATE TOTAL 

Grand River Dam Authority 

Public Serv. Co. of Oklahoma 

Northeastern 

Southwestern 

15.9 

15.9 

25.0 

0.7 

3.4 

3.3 

2.1 

4.8 

39.3 

0.1 

0.30 

0.16 

0.21 

0.25 

0.20 

0.19 

0.18 

0.24 

23.7 

27.6 

41.0 

20.8 

5.5 

30.4 

0.8 

126.1 

34.0 

0.5 

• 

0.42 

0.41 

0.32 

0.38 

0.36 

0.38 

0.46 

0.50 

STATE TOTAL 0.1 34.5 

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0.3% S or Less 

State Utility 

PA Duquesne Light Co. 

Elrama 

Phillips 

Cheswick 

Metropolitan Edison Co. 

Pennsylvania Electric Co. 

Pennsylvania Power Co. 

New Castle 

Bruce Mansfield 

West Penn Power Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

SC Carolina Power & Light Co. 

South Carolina Elec. & Gas Co. 

South Carolina Public 

Service Authority 

STATE TOTAL 

IO3 BBL 

21.0 

8.0 

47.1 

240.0 

9.5 

22.1 

347.7 

14.3 

64.9 

_i§_ 

0.14 

0.11 

0.19 

0.05 

0.25 

0.27 

0.20 

0.20 

0.31% S or More 

36.7 

115.9 

0.10 

IO3 BBL 

18.0 

135.9 

153.9 

_££. 

0.36 

0.37 

SD Otter Tail Power Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

TN Tennesse Valley Authority 

STATE TOTAL 

TX San Miguel Elec. Coop. Inc. 

Southwestern Elec. Power Co. 

Texas Municipal Power Agency 

West Texas Utilities Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

31.0 

58.5 

89.5 

0.15 

0.25 

8.0 

8.0 

131.9 

131.9 

7.2 

12.3 

0.31 

0.50 

0.62 

0.51 

19.5 

UT Utah Power & Light Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

38.0 

38.0 

0.30 
P.9 

0.3% S or Less 

State Utility 

WA Pacific Power 6i Light Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

WV Monongahela Power Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

WI Dairyland Power Coop 

Wisconsin Electric Power Co. 

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. 

STATE TOTAL 

* 

IO3 BBL 

16.0 

16.0 

93.8 

93.8 

50.0 

25.7 

-4S_ 

0.3 

0.30 

0.23 

0.22 

0.31% S or More 

IO3 BBL %S 

75.7 

8.8 

8.8 

0.50 

WY Basin Electric Power Coop 

Pacific Power & Light Co. 

Utah Power 6i Light Co. 

STATE TOTAL 

71.0 

7.0 

78.0 

0.30 

0.30 

39.3 

39.3 

0.34 

US TOTAL 1900.4 1086.3