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Carbon dioxide per Megawatt hour (kg/hr)
940
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Carbon content per hour
256
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Optimiser improvement
2%
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Carbon price/tonne
$ 50.00
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Wholesale price per Megawatt hour
 $ 36.00
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Up time percent
80%
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Hours/year8760
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Plant size in MWOptimiser improvementSaving in carbon kg per hourCarbon cost saving per hourBottom line extra revenue per hour from optimisationProfit per hour increaseAnnual bottom line revenue optimisation increaseReduction in carbon charges per yearCombined economic benefit per yearCarbon tonnes saved per year
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502%256 $ 13 $ 36 $ 49 $ 252,288 $ 89,830 $ 342,118 1797
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1002%513 $ 26 $ 72 $ 98 $ 504,576 $ 179,660 $ 684,236 3593
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2502%1282 $ 64 $ 180 $ 244 $ 1,261,440 $ 449,149 $ 1,710,589 8983
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5002%2564 $ 128 $ 360 $ 488 $ 2,522,880 $ 898,298 $ 3,421,178 17966
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10002%5127 $ 256 $ 720 $ 976 $ 5,045,760 $ 1,796,596 $ 6,842,356 35932
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15002%7691 $ 385 $ 1,080 $ 1,465 $ 7,568,640 $ 2,694,895 $ 10,263,535 53898
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20002%10255 $ 513 $ 1,440 $ 1,953 $ 10,091,520 $ 3,593,193 $ 13,684,713 71864
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Theoretical economic benefit from implementation of the exergy optimiser on thermal power stations using coal as a fuel.
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Theoretical benefit based on fuel saving from optimisation for equivalent output
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Currency is in U S dollars
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Plant size
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Carbon dioxide per MWhr is interactive and reflects through the spreadsheet
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Carbon content per hour calculated as 12/44 of carbon dixide emittedper MWhr
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Optimiser improvement is an interactive setting that reflects through the spreadsheet. Note that prototype tests shwed 2 to 4 %. Offline runs on historic data showed o=some stations were 10% off optimal.
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Carbon Price per tonne is interactive. The value shown (27.50) is from EU market data in November 2109
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Wholesale price per hour is interactive. Value shown ($36.00) from USA market data ffor 2019 average
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Up time percent is based on base load ststion with maintenance allowance and can be altered to represent peak load hours running
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