Plants Land-based installations

The ABV reactor installation is designed as a steam-generating plant to power civil ships and submarines or to act as a power source for land-based, underground, surface-water and underwater nuclear power plants. Possible applications of the ABV plant are the following ... 

Plant layout of a land-based NPP with the ABV reactor installation is shown in Fig. V-10 that of a floating NPP is in Fig. V-11. 

Coastal utilities have been major consumers of products derived from imported crudes. East coast utility fuels have been based on Venezuelan and Middle East crudes while the West coast has obtained much of its fuel from Indonesia. There are a number of reasons why it would be difficult to convert these plants to coal firing. Auxiliary facilities such as storage areas, rail sidings, and unloading and conveying equipment are no longer in place to handle coal. It is even more significant that the land on which these facilities were located has been sold or used for other utility purposes. As a result, scrubbers could not be installed at these sites to allow for sulfur dioxide control. 

The DuPont Permasep Engineering Manual11 has published a "guide" for the capital, operating and maintenance costs for both a brackish water system and a seawater system. The brackish water system costs are shown in Table 4.10. They are based on a large brackish water system built in the southern United States in 1982. The estimated capital cost of the plant is 1.25 per gallon per day of product water installed. This cost includes the cost of wells, a reverse osmosis system with pretreatment, a building for the reverse osmosis systems and office. The above installed capacity cost does not include the cost of land nor an independent power source. 

Speaking of military fuel cell applications, we must first point out the following. Most versions of fuel cell-based power plants are of ambivalent utility they are just as good for civil as for military purposes. Thus, the stationary power plants of different sizes used for unintermptible emergency power supplies for military objects such as forts, command centers, radar stations, and the like do not differ in any way from similar power plants for civil use in hospitals, telecommunications installations, computer centers of banks, and so on. Power plants for automotive land and water-bound means of transport are equally good for civil and for military vehicles. This is true, even more directly, for power sources intended to supply portable equipment. A lower volume and weight of all equipment carried by soldiers in combat (e.g., as a means of communication, as a means of orientation, as night-vision devices) is a very important point for land forces. 

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