Cost-effectiveness Analysis on Measures to Improve China's Coal-fired Industrial Boiler [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 658.40 General management
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berkeley, Calif. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: p. 1549-1554 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 268206
• Chủ đề: 1. 01 coal, lignite, and peat; 2. 32 energy conservation, consumption, and utilization; 3. Cost-effectiveness; 4. Energy efficiency improvement; 5. Fuel switch

Tóm tắt

Tackling coal-burning industrial boiler is becoming one of the key programs to solve the environmental problem in China. Assessing the economics of various options to address coal-fired boiler is essential to identify cost-effective solutions. This paper discusses our work in conducting a cost-effectiveness analysis on various types of improvement measures ranging from energy efficiency retrofits to switch from coal to other fuels in China. Sensitivity analysis was also performed in order to understand the impacts of some economic factors such as discount rate and energy price on the economics of boiler improvement options. The results show that nine out of 14 solutions are cost-effective, and a lower discount rate and higher energy price will result in more energy efficiency measures being cost-effective. Both monetary and non-monetary barriers to energy-efficiency improvement are discussed and policies to tackle these barriers are recommended. Our research aims at providing a methodology to assess cost-effective solutions to boiler problems.