Topic Area 5: Advanced Brayton Cycles for Highly Efficient Zero Emission Systems

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	Federal Grant Title:	Topic Area 5: Advanced Brayton Cycles for Highly Efficient Zero Emission Systems
	CFDA Number:	81.089
	CFDA Description:	Fossil Energy Research and Development
	Federal Agency Name:	Headquarters
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology Energy
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-05NT42380-5
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Apr 07, 2005
	Creation Date:	Apr 07, 2005
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 13, 2005
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Jul 31, 2005
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$100,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$0
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: Topic Area 5- Advanced Brayton Cycles for Highly Efficient Zero Emission Systems The government seeks applications that present a plan for the development of advanced Brayton cycle turbine concepts. The application must present concept(s) or approach(s) that will take the state of the art Brayton Cycle (in a combined cycle application) from today's 58 - 60 combined cycle (LHV) efficiency to 65 - 67 equivalent efficiency or higher. The proposed machine(s) must consider integration into advanced coal based and natural gas based zero emission systems with the ability to attain a 60 percent (HHV) efficiency and 75 percent (LHV) efficiency respectively (prior to carbon separation and capture). Both systems must consider options for zero CO2 emissions and show how this would affect the turbine design, and operation and overall system performance. The progressive development of other subsystems (gasifiers, air separation unit, membrane separation, fuel cells, and etc.) will effect and should be accounted for in the performance of these advance systems when integrated with and advanced Brayton Cycle. Since the purpose of this topic area is to promote the development of advanced Brayton cycles the system performance and advancement attributed to the Brayton cycle must be clearly delineated. The concept(s) should show how the machine would be optimized at the initial design stage for individual fossil fuels (coal synthesis gas, H2 derived from coal, and natural gas) or made fuel flexible. It is expected that these machines, and associated variations, will be fully integrated depending on the application. The reduction of NOx emissions is an important goal for the advanced Brayton cycle evaluated under this topic area. The base line goal for NOx emissions is less than 3 ppm (at 15 percent O2). Brayton cycles and systems that can efficiently surpass this limit while maintaining reasonable values of other constraints will be considered favorably. DOE recognizes the intrinsic conflict, in certain cases, between attaining goals for efficiency, emissions and cost. It is also acknowledged that there are various ways to attain DOE goals for overall system performance. A relevant example of this conflict is the dilemma between NOx prevention, NOx control and higher efficiency. Other conflicts can exist between efficiency and capital cost. Successful applications will demonstrate how these conflicts and trade-offs will be managed to develop an advanced Brayton cycle turbine for a coal based system that meets DOE's overall goals stated above. Applications should consider carefully the trade-off between NOx prevention in the turbine combustor and NOx control from the system and all associated penalties. These trade-offs should be managed to produce advanced clean and low cost systems with high efficiencies. Approaches that are expected to bring about these advances may include but are not limited to: increasing the turbine rotor inlet temperature to 3100 degree F or higher, increasing pressure ratio to 35 or higher, augmentation of the working fluid, pressure gain combustion, inter-stage reheat, inter-cooling, recuperation, air separation integration and / or CO2 compression integration, and etc. Work awarded as a result of successful applications will conduct system studies with proposed advanced Brayton cycles, identify state points (mass flow, composition, temperature and pressure) at key stages in the advanced Brayton cycle, assess technology issues for: feasibility, R and D requirements and cost, and provide knowledgeable input on developmental feasibility from original equipment manufactures and / or consultants. Application Development and Project Implementation Applications in Topic Area 5 are expected to be system studies to identify research and development requirements. It is expected this effort will be between 18 and 24 months. General Guidance for Preparing the Research and Development Implementation Plan A Research and Development Implementation Plan is a required deliverable in all Phase I efforts and shall be submitted to DOE for approval within six months of project award. This plan shall outline the project plan from Concept to Commercial Deployment. This plan shall document alternative concepts and configurations to be examined; proposed testing and validation test plans, trade-off analyses and evaluation methods, criteria for decision making processes, project milestones, go/no go decision points, task interdependencies, critical path for product development, and other relevant project activities. The R and D Implementation Plan must include a budget estimate for completing Phase II and III work. (this budget is an estimate and will not represent the final negotiated cost estimate for Phase II and III work). Although this R and D Implementation Plan is required in Phase I, the plan shall detail activities in Phase II and Phase III in addition to Phase I. This plan shall be prepared using commercially available project management software such as Microsoft Project. General Guidance for preparing System Studies Successful applicants will be required to follow the quality standards provided in the most current revision of the publication "Quality Guidelines for Energy System Studies" as prepared by NETL's Office of Systems and Policy Support. The January 30, 2005 revision of this document can be found as attachment A. Applicants are highly encouraged to use the appropriate version of Aspen Plus(r) process simulation software for the government funded system studies.
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