DoD Field Site

IFC provided DOE with information on their 59 fuel cell unit operating in North America. This information is provided in Table 11-4. As mention before, several of these units are operating on DoD field site and are report on Table 11-3. 

This section of the handbook contains field site information. Most of the worldwide summaries were extracted from an lEA paper. Information on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Fuel Cell Demonstration was taken from the following web site www.dodfuelcell.com. Finally, Fuel Cell Energy, IFC, and Siemens Westinghouse provided information on their field sites. The IFC PAFC summary includes a number of projects reported by DoD. In the DoD demonstration program, a total of 30 PAFC units were installed at DoD sites across the United States. These were model B and C PC-25 units. 

The costs of a 10-acre, full-scale, gravel-based constructed wetland used to teat groundwater contaminated with explosive compounds were calculated based on the field demonstration at the U.S. Department of Defense s (DOD s) Milan Army Ammunition Plant near Milan, Tennessee. The estimated, site-specific costs of a 200-gal/min system that discharges effluent to surface waters were 3,466,000 in 1998 dollars. Amortization of these costs was estimated at 1.36 per 1000 gal of effluent for 10 years and 0.45 per 1000 gal for 30 years. Table 1 shows a breakdown of the site-specific estimate. Capital costs for a similar system with groundwater... 

In 1995, a field demonstration of UVB was conducted at the U.S. Department of Defense s (DOD s) Port Hueneme Naval Exchange site in California. The site is a former gasoline station contaminated with approximately 11,000 gal of gasoline. The cost of this UVB application was approximately 184,000. This cost estimate included capital and O M costs but did not include the costs associated with research and development (D188709, p. 12). 

During the field demonstration in 1997 at the Department of Defense s (DOD s) Operable Unit 2, Hill Air Force Base in Utah, approximately 908 gal of dense, non-aqueous-phase liquids (DNAPLs) were removed from contaminated soils. The cost of the demonstration was 230/yd of soil treated and 165/gal of DNAPL removed. These costs included the purchase of all the equipment and an extensive monitoring network. It is estimated that future applications at the site would require roughly half as many wells and the boiler rental would be restricted to a much shorter period. These conditions would lower the direct treatment costs to 103/yd of treated soil and 74/gal DNAPL removed (D18518W, p. 216). 

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