Meshan Document 15

Development: Philip Warnes

TYPE OUTPUT (MW) VOL. M3 MASS COST FULE Kl/hr MCr Fule/hr

IICE TL6 0.004 0.01 0.01 0.00002 0.001 0.0000002

IICE TL6 0.01 0.025 0.025 0.00005 0.0025 0.000000625

IICE TL6 0.1 0.25 0.25 0.0005 0.025 0.00000625

IICE TL6 0.4 1.0 1.0 0.002 0.1 0.000025

IICE TL6 0.5 1.25 1.25 0.0025 0.125 0.0000321

IICE TL6 0.75 1.875 1.875 0.00375 0.1875 0.0000468

IICE TL6 0.8 2 2 0.004 0.2 0.00005

IICE TL6 1 2.5 2.5 0.005 0.25 0.0000625

IICE TL6 1.5 3.75 3.75 0.0075 0.375 0.0000936

IICE TL6 2 5 5 0.1 0.5 0.000125

IICE TL6 4 10 10 0.02 1 0.00025

IICE TL6 5 12.5 12.5 0.025 1.25 0.000312

IICE TL6 10 25 25 0.05 2.25 0.000625

Gas Turbine TL7 0.25 0.5 0.5 0.0025 0.0075 0.0000187

Gas Turbine TL7 0.5 1 1 0.005 0.15 0.0000375

Gas Turbine TL7 1 2 2 0.01 0.3 0.000075

Gas Turbine TL7 2 4 4 0.02 0.6 0.00015

Gas Turbine TL7 4 8 8 0.04 1.2 0.0003

Gas Turbine TL7 5 10 10 0.05 1.5 0.000375

Gas Turbine TL7 10 20 20 0.1 3.0 0.00075

Gas Turbine TL7 20 40 40 0.2 6.0 0.0015

Gas Turbine TL7 50 100 100 0.5 15 0.00375

Gas Turbine TL7 100 200 200 1.0 30 0.0075

Steam Turb TL5 0.35 1 2 0.002 0.0525 0.0000131

Steam Turb TL5 0.7 2 4 0.004 0.105 0.0000262

Steam Turb TL5 1.0 2.86 5.72 0.00572 0.15 0.0000375

Steam Turb TL5 2.0 5.72 11.44 0.01144 0.3 0.000075

Steam Turb TL5 10 28.6 57.2 0.0572 1.5 0.000375

Steam Turb TL5 50 143 286 0.286 7.5 0.001875

Steam Turb TL5 60 171.5 343 0.343 9 0.00225

Steam Turb TL5 100 286 572 0.572 15 0.00375

Steam Turb TL5 600 1715 3430 3.43 90 0.0225

Steam Turb TL5 1000 2860 5720 5.72 150 0.0375

Nuc. TL7 57t 12 20 160 2.0 3Kl/yr 4.275MCr/yr

Nuc. TL7 285t 60 100 800 10 15Kl/yr 21.375MCr/yr

Nuc. TL7 2850t 600 1000 8000 100 150Kl/yr 213.75MCr/yr

NOTES:

IICE TL6: Tech Level 6 Inproved Internal Combustion Engine powered by hydrocarbon distillates

Gas Turbine TL7: Tech Level 7 Gas Turbine powered by hydrocarbon distillates

Steam Turb TL5: Tech Level 5 Steam Turbine powered by hydrocarbon distillates

Nuc. TL7 57t: Tech Level 7 Nuclear Fission Power Plant - consumes 57 tonnes of radioactives fule per year

OUTPUT (MW): The power output of the particular engine in MW

VOL M3: The volume of the powerplant in cubic metres

COST: The cost of the powerplant in MCr

FULE kl/hr: Fule consumption of the powerplant in kiloliters of fule per hour

MCr Fule/hr: Cost of fuel for a particular powerplant on a per hour basis - very usefule if ypu want running costs!

DISCUSSION OF SERKUR POWERPLANTS

The above is a selection of standard powerplants used on the planet Serker. The smaller ones may be used to power certain vheicals; the larger powerplants may be used to pump electricity in to the national (planetry!) grid. This table was produced with the intention of having a selection of pre-generated powerplants that could be plugged into any vheical designed for this planet. It is my intention in future to also put together similar tables of standard hulls for AFV's etc and weapons, wich should greatly speed up any future vheical designs.

DISCUSSION ON ELECTRICITY GENERATION

An interestin eccersise was to compare the relative generation costs for some of the powerplants to see if they were reasonable.

TL5 Steam Turbine 600MW

Running cost/year = 197.1MCr (thats 788400kl/year, 2365200tonnes HCD per year)

(assumes 8760hrs/standard year)

Cost to build: 3.43MCr

TL7 Nuclar 600MW

Running cost/year = 213.75MCr (see table above)

Cost to build: 100 MCr

Nuclear powerplants are more expensive to build and run!

Lets take the worst case scenario - a nuclear plant costing 100MCr to build and 231.75MCr/year to run.

Running costs alone are 0.0000406MCr/ MegawattHoure (0.0406Cr/KWhr or 4.06cents per kWhr (are there 100 cents to the credit?!)

Adding in the cost of building the plant averaged over 20years life expectancy plus interest and other running and maintanence costs (eg: wages) one would expect a generation cost of about 10c per kWhr which is about what we pay today!