Industrial process-heat market assessment: an update

This report is designed to be a reference resource and is an update of the report, same subject, issued by GCRA in December 1981. It gives a broad perspective of the potential HTGR market for industrial process heat and is intended to serve as a briefing document for those wishing to obtain background information or to serve as a starting point from which more detailed and refined studies may be undertaken. This report presents a qualitative and quantitative description of the industrial process heat market in the US, provides a summary discussion of cogeneration experience to date, and outlines the existing institutional and financial framework for cogeneration. The report presents the latest developments in regulatory and legislative activities which are associated with that technology. Finally, the report presents a brief discussion of an advanced process heat distribution system, coupled with an HTGR configuration which has been under study during the current fiscal year by one of the program participants