Plant of the future

More advanced MHD power plants of the future are expected to use preheat temperatures of up to 2000 K. These temperatures, to be achieved by... 

Nuclear power plants of the future are to be designed and operated with the objective of better fiilfiUing the role as a bulk power producer that, because of reduced vulnerabiUty to severe accidents, should be more broadly accepted and implemented. Use of these plants could help stem the tide of environmental damage caused by air pollution from fossil-fuel combustion products (64). 

Ponton, J. (1996). Some Thoughts on the Batch Plant of the Future. 5th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, July 14-18,1996, San Diego, CA, Paper 52e. New York American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

Advanced power generation cycles that combine high-temper-ature fuel cells and gas turbines, reciprocating engines, or another fuel cell are the hybrid power plants of the future. As noted, these conceptual systems have the potential to achieve efficiencies greater than 70% and projected to be commercially ready by the year 2010 or sooner. The hybrid fuel cell/turbine (FC/T) power plant will combine a high-temperature, conventional molten carbonate fuel cell or a solid oxide... 

This checklist may be used to stimulate the thinking of inherent safety review and process hazard analysis teams, and any other individuals or groups working on process improvements. It is intended to promote "blue-sky" or "out-of the-box" thinking, and to generate ideas that might be usable in an existing facility or a "plant of the future" concept. 

Bretault, R, Houdin, P., Emin, J.L., Baron, P. 2005. The reprocessing plant of the future A single extraction cycle. Proc. WM 05 Conference, February 27 to March 3, 2005, Tucson, AZ. 

Ponton, J. W., Some thoughts on the batch plant of the future, in Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Chemical Engineering, 1996, 52e, San Diego. 

In Table 5.2 I have compared the features of traditional fossil and nuclear power plants with those of this solar-hydrogen power plant of the future. This comparison shows that BAU (business as usual) technology is inferior even in the short run. This data shows that there is no clean fossil or safe nuclear power and that mankind must fully convert to a renewable energy economy, in the shortest possible time, but definitely not later than the end of this century. 

With regard to the environment, the intensified plant of the future will be much less obtrusive, with the distillation and absorption towers of our present chemical complexes being replaced by more compact and inconspicuous equipment, which may be hidden by the boundary tree line. In addition, the cost of effluent treatment systems will be less, allowing tighter emission standards to be reached economically. The economic incentive to produce commodity chemicals in large centralised plant complex is likely to diminish or disappear with the application of PI. Thus distributed manufacture in smaller plant will be both feasible and economic, thereby avoiding the need to distribute hazardous material on the public transport system. 

Klutz, H.J., Moser, C., and Block, D., WTA fine grain drying— Module for lignite-fired power plants of the future, 2006. Report PT 11, VGB Power Tech., Essen, Germany. 

The possibflities of producing organic chemicals directly by and from the plant by means of plant biotechnology will increase dramatically. The plant is the chemical plant of the future. 

Chemicals and Plastics (USA) and Diamond Shamrock Corp. (USA) [1]. This type of cells is becoming dominant in the CAT plants of the future. 

New Approaches to the Process Industries The Manufacturing Plant of the Future... 

Klaus Lackner, Los Alamos National Laboratory I would like to point out that one of the largest sources of electricity is ultimately coal-burning power plants. If you really want to get the effluent clean and want to capture your CO2, ideally, in a separate stream, you end up going through a calcification process. The issue of catalysts and how to make this work is certainly on the mind of everyone working in that area. I think that if the power plant of the future is a coal plant, it is likely to be a gasification plant because I see this as the only way of collecting CO2 and all the other pollutants for that matter. 

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