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Candidate Project Screening and Selection

 

 

The suitability of an onsite power project involves a series of technical, social and economic assessments that examine the regulatory, policy and program favorability of the State and locality of the proposed project including energy prices and trends and equipment selection. An early determination of the favorability of a project can save time and money and a progressive set of assessments via stage-gate methodology assists executive managers with decisions necessary to move forward with a project.

 

The following outlines the ideal conditions for an onsite power project featuring the Siemens VOC CHP solution for industry.

 

 

Favorable Conditions and Applications for a Siemens SGT-300 or VOCGENTM CHP System

 

These criteria are guidelines designed to assist in the identification of potential projects that can deliver maximum benefits for the customer. 

 

  •  A facility has an existing VOC thermal oxidizer or other abatement system where the investment is a “sunk cost” with little or no return on investment (ROI). 

 

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    Siemens VOC CHP technology can abate the following classes of organic compounds:  ketones, aldehydes, alcohols, alkanes, aromatics and glycol ethers. Chlorinated compounds, are prohibited.  All other wastes streams that are too hot for efficient power generation or that contain corrosives, particulates, sulfur compounds including hydrogen sulfides, and salts, etc., must be reviewed on a case-by-case basis for pretreatment.

 

  • A prospective customer has an express interest in capturing and utilizing “opportunity” fuels such as waste VOCs and/or other gases including gasoline, natural gas, hydrogen, methane (biogas).  This interest may additionally extend to the buring of biodiesel as a pilot fuel.

 

  • A prospective customer is familiar with air pollution controls such as thermal oxidizers type equipment is perhaps familiar with cogeneration and distributed energy methods and equipment. 

 

  •  A prospective customer can utilize electric power and heat generated onsite.

 

  •  A prospective customer facility is located where electrical and natural gas energy costs are favorable to CHP.

 

  • Two installation strategies include replacing existing VOC abatement equipment, or installing Siemens VOC CHP as a redundant VOC abatement system.  The candidate facility is located in a State where funding resources and incentives and CHP investment tax credits or U.S. Treasury grants are favorable; output-based emissions regulations; interconnection rules; standby rates, backup rates and exit fees; public benefit funds; and energy efficiency portfolio standards are favorable.

 

  • The prospective customer agrees that the project is a “capital” project and third party funding project is not considered necessary. The exceptions are government rebates, grants and tax incentives that are identified in the project development phase.

 

  • The prospective customer has considered the “value of energy reliability,” critical to plant operations.