Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant
Several alternative designs of a transportation system for a hypothetical 50-Mw WFPP in Vermont are reported. Two means--truck and rail--of moving the fuel, wood chips, from the harvest site to the WFPP are investigated. The design of an efficient truck transportation system must take into account v...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:6535644 2023-07-30T04:05:34+02:00 Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant Adler, T.J. Blakey, M. Meyer, T. 2022-05-25 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6535644 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6535644 https://doi.org/10.2172/6535644 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6535644 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6535644 https://doi.org/10.2172/6535644 doi:10.2172/6535644 09 BIOMASS FUELS 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS THERMAL POWER PLANTS WOOD WASTES TRANSPORT COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS POWER RANGE 10-100 MW TRAINS TRUCKS VERMONT WOOD BURNING FURNACES APPLIANCES ECONOMICS FURNACES NORTH AMERICA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION POWER PLANTS SOLID WASTES USA VEHICLES WASTES WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES 2022 ftosti https://doi.org/10.2172/6535644 2023-07-11T10:49:23Z Several alternative designs of a transportation system for a hypothetical 50-Mw WFPP in Vermont are reported. Two means--truck and rail--of moving the fuel, wood chips, from the harvest site to the WFPP are investigated. The design of an efficient truck transportation system must take into account vehicle weight and capacity, plant production capacity, distance to plant and time required to drive it, and comparative costs of different fleet management options. Considerations for a rail system include ease of connection to regular rail service (schedules and routes), comparative costs of owning versus renting railcars, comparative costs and scheduling problems for running plant-owned or leased unit trains, and costs of building additional track. Either transportation system will require special techniques for loading and unloading wood chips. The direct cost of both systems, with their possible variations is summarized as accurately as possible, and the general cost ranges of the two are compared. Although cost factors will vary greatly depending on the location and particular design specifications of the WFPP, it is concluded that the 35-truck fleet is probably the least-cost system in terms of capital costs. The three factors analyzed as indirect costs are highway maintenance costs, noise levels, and roadway structure problems. The analysis concludes that the specific WFPP site has a strong influence on the costs--direct and indirect--of the various possible transportation systems. For each site, a complete cost analysis is recommended, the framework of which is sketched in this study. Other/Unknown Material North Atlantic SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) |
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09 BIOMASS FUELS 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS THERMAL POWER PLANTS WOOD WASTES TRANSPORT COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS POWER RANGE 10-100 MW TRAINS TRUCKS VERMONT WOOD BURNING FURNACES APPLIANCES ECONOMICS FURNACES NORTH AMERICA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION POWER PLANTS SOLID WASTES USA VEHICLES WASTES WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES |
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09 BIOMASS FUELS 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS THERMAL POWER PLANTS WOOD WASTES TRANSPORT COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS POWER RANGE 10-100 MW TRAINS TRUCKS VERMONT WOOD BURNING FURNACES APPLIANCES ECONOMICS FURNACES NORTH AMERICA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION POWER PLANTS SOLID WASTES USA VEHICLES WASTES WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES Adler, T.J. Blakey, M. Meyer, T. Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant |
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09 BIOMASS FUELS 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS THERMAL POWER PLANTS WOOD WASTES TRANSPORT COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS POWER RANGE 10-100 MW TRAINS TRUCKS VERMONT WOOD BURNING FURNACES APPLIANCES ECONOMICS FURNACES NORTH AMERICA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION POWER PLANTS SOLID WASTES USA VEHICLES WASTES WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES |
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Several alternative designs of a transportation system for a hypothetical 50-Mw WFPP in Vermont are reported. Two means--truck and rail--of moving the fuel, wood chips, from the harvest site to the WFPP are investigated. The design of an efficient truck transportation system must take into account vehicle weight and capacity, plant production capacity, distance to plant and time required to drive it, and comparative costs of different fleet management options. Considerations for a rail system include ease of connection to regular rail service (schedules and routes), comparative costs of owning versus renting railcars, comparative costs and scheduling problems for running plant-owned or leased unit trains, and costs of building additional track. Either transportation system will require special techniques for loading and unloading wood chips. The direct cost of both systems, with their possible variations is summarized as accurately as possible, and the general cost ranges of the two are compared. Although cost factors will vary greatly depending on the location and particular design specifications of the WFPP, it is concluded that the 35-truck fleet is probably the least-cost system in terms of capital costs. The three factors analyzed as indirect costs are highway maintenance costs, noise levels, and roadway structure problems. The analysis concludes that the specific WFPP site has a strong influence on the costs--direct and indirect--of the various possible transportation systems. For each site, a complete cost analysis is recommended, the framework of which is sketched in this study. |
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Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant |
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Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant |
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Direct and indirect costs of transporting wood chips to supply a wood-fired power plant |
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