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To: Ahda who wrote (2616)	4/24/2001 10:47:46 PM
From: RobertSheldon	Respond to of 46821

I do not see the answer to my original question which was how much fuel does one of these units require. If you figure out how many hours a day that you want to run the turbine and then the fuel consumption of the turbine (which varies by type of fuel and size of turbine - there are many types of fuel that could be used) per hour and multiply that product by cost of the particular fuel you will have an answer. I referenced the information above so that you could compare it to other solutions. There is no way to say "it takes X amount of fuel to run these puppies" without knowing how many hours and what type of fuel you are using. Again, the figure above is an average for comparative purposes. A NATURAL GAS (non-sour) version run all out for 24 hours a day for 50,000 hours (there are a few scheduled maintenance items that for the life of the machine will total somewhere around 2 hours [yes, out of 50,000 hours!]) will burn about 0.0133 MMBTU per kWh.