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Category : Gas air conditioning
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Natural Gas Cooling in DOD Facilities
Author: Natural Gas Cooling In DOD Facilities... USACERL Technical Report 97/125... U.S. Department Of Defense... August 1997
Author: Gas-fueled Cooling Technologies at DOD Fixed Facilities
Author: Timothy W. PedersenPublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Evaluating Gas-fueled Cooling Technologies for Application at Army Installations
Author: Gerald L. ClerPublisher:
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Category : Air conditioning
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Natural Gas-Electric Hybrid Cooling System for Army Facilities - A Decision Tool
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Operation of space cooling equipment accounts for more than half of the annual peak electrical demand and a third of the total electrical energy consumed in a typical Army installation. As a means to reduce the peak electrical demand in kilowatts and electrical energy consumption in kilowatt-hours, a number of Army installations installed natural gas engine chillers during the 1990s through Congressional appropriations, the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and installation operations and maintenance (O&M) funds. This report reviews field performance of these systems and provides a selection guide for cooling systems in the Army installations. Life-cycle cost analysis of chillers in three ranges of cooling capacity was conducted to determine the economical benefit of hybrid cooling systems. The capacity ranges are: less than 50 tons, 50-200 tons, and greater than 200 tons, which correspond to typical small administration buildings, barrack or large office buildings, and central cooling plant applications, respectively. The study results show that the electric-gas hybrid cooling system is recommended only when a favorable fuel cost rate is available for natural gas compared to electricity.
Natural Gas-electric Hybrid Cooling System for Army Facilities
Author: Chang W. SohnPublisher:
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Category : Air conditioning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Electrical and Natural Gas Rates for Cooling in Major Army Installations
Author: Carl A. FeickertPublisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Advanced Gas Cooling Technology Demonstration Program at Air Force Installations, Fiscal Year 1996
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Approximately one-third of all energy consumption and two-thirds of total energy expenditures at Department of Defense fixed facilities are electricity related. Electrical energy costs can be reduced by conserving electrical energy or by replacing electrical consuming devices with alternate fuel-driven mechanisms, e.g., by natural gas cooling. Use of state-of-the-art gas cooling technologies can reduce an installation's electric demand, provide domestic hot water, and lessen environmental impacts normally attributed to electric-driven chillers. This study evaluated absorption chillers, engine-driven chillers, and desiccant dehumidification systems as possible alternatives to electric cooling equipment at Air Force facilities. Site candidates were screened, economic costs/benefits analyses of applying gas cooling technologies at specific locations were done, and new equipment was purchased, installed, and tested at approved sites. Recommendations were made regarding the use of gas cooling technologies at Air Force facilities as a whole.
Field Evaluation of Gas Engine Driven Rooftop Air-conditioning Equipment at the Willow Grove (PA) Naval Air Station
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Languages : en
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The federal government is the largest single energy consumer in the United States with consumption of nearly 1.5 quad/yr (I quad = 10[sup 15] Btu) and cost valued at nearly $10 billion annually. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) supports efforts to reduce energy use and associated expenditures within the federal sector. One such effort, the New Technology Demonstration Program, seeks to evaluate new energy saving U.S. technologies and secure their more timely adoption by the federal government. Through the results of a New Technology Demonstration, federal agency decision makers can receive more [open-quotes]hands on[close-quotes] information with which to validate the decision to utilize a new technology in their facilities. Energy-saving technologies regularly emerge in the marketplace. This program seeks to identify those technologies, determine which have the broadest application for the federal sector, and then shorten the deployment time for those that prove beneficial to the federal market. Recent initiatives within the federal government have focused on the use of natural gas for both economic and environmental reasons. It is therefore fitting that one technology area selected for evaluation through the program should be natural gas engine driven cooling equipment. This paper reports on the field performance evaluation of a new U.S. cooling technology that has been installed for the first time at a federal facility. The demonstration and evaluation were made possible by cooperation of the U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program, the American Gas Cooling, Center (AGCC), Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO Energy), Thermo King Corporation (TK), and the Naval Air Station at Willow Grove (NASWG).
Advanced Gas Cooling Technology Demonstration Program at Air Force Installations, Fiscal Year 1996
Author: Timothy W. PedersenPublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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