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…and power-electronics; and less gas, until gas prices normalized. Self-defeatingly, we would also expect less short-term decarbonization via coal-to-gas switching. Across our research we have modelled over 150 different technologies…
…flow by $5/kW/year. Numbers can be stress-tested in the data-file. Other inputs in the model are informed by our data into gas turbine parameters, gas turbine capex costs, gas prices…
…This data-file reviews technical papers. Methane slip is very low at gas turbines and gas heating (less than 0.1%), rising to 0.5 – 3% in cookstoves and some dual-fuel marine…
This data-file models the economics of turbo-charging gas turbines, which increases the mass flow of combustion air, in order to improve their power ratings c10-20%. This is especially important to…
…significantly decreased cost… [and] increased cost efficiency in the harvesting of wind turbines”. CO2 emissions in the construction of a wind turbine can be reduced by at least 25%. Progress….
This data-file explores an alternative design for a combined cycle gas turbine, re-circulating exhaust gases (including CO2) after the combustion stage, back into the turbine’s compressor and combustion zones. The…
…can easily be calculated from first principles, as a function of (a) the different input gases; (b) the resultant exhaust gases; (c) the masses of those gases (in kg); and…
…model has power rising from c40% to c50% of the US gas market by 2030, compensated by lower use in residential heat. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-co2-and-methane-intensity-by-basin https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-gathering-how-much-co2-and-methane https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-pipelines-how-much-energy-co2-and-methane-leaks https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-industry-co2-per-barrel https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/methane-leaks-from-downstream-gas-distribution https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/methane-slip-how-much-gas-evades-combustion https://thundersaidenergy.com/2019/12/15/global-gas-catch-methane-if-you-can https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/decarbonization-of-the-united-states-with-a-co2-price…
…gas turbine ran at 26% utilization, which is lower than the base case in our gas generation economic model. However the average turbine also ran 90% of its nameplate capacity…
…by absorbing cheap renewables and running the gas turbines less frequently? Returning to our ethane cracker example above, we estimate that each ton of ethane requires 24mcf of gas (around…