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Techno-economic evaluation of strategies for addressing energy and environmental challenges of industrial boilers in China

Journal

ENERGY
Volume 118, Issue -, Pages 526-533

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.10.083

Keywords

Energy efficiency; Fuel switching; Distributed CHP; Industrial coal-fired boilers; Natural gas; China

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  1. U.S. Department of State under U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
  2. Regents of the University of California

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Tackling coal-burning industrial boilers is one of the key solutions to meeting the climate change and solving the environmental problem in China. Assessing the economics of various options to address coalfired boilers is essential to identify cost-effective solutions. This paper discusses our work in conducting a comprehensive techno-economic analysis to evaluate various strategies for improving efficiency and maximize fuel-switching of industrial boilers. The analysis focused on three options: (1) fuel switching to replace coal with alternative fuels' for small size of boilers; (2) retrofitting boilers through a series of efficiency improvement measures; (3) developing community-scale, distributed systems to replace otherwise scattered boilers operated by individual industrial facilities. Key barriers that prevent these solutions from being fully captured are discussed and policy recommendations to tackle these barriers are provided.(C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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