Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC): Social and environmental issues

Abrahim Lavi and Gay Heit Lavi

Energy, 1979, vol. 4, issue 5, 833-840

Abstract: OTEC converts the solar energy, collected and stored in tropical waters, into electricity. The electricity may be either cabled to shore or used in situ for the manufacture of energyintensive products. Two countries, U.S.A. and Japan, are seriously pursuing OTEC. The development programs in both countries are similar. Presently, the emphasis is on the closed Rankine cycle with ammonia as the working fluid. The power plants are to be housed on floating platforms. If the electricity is to be cabled to shore, the platforms will be moored to the ocean floor. If the plants are to produce chemical products, they will graze from one location to another on the open sea to capture the largest available thermal resource.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(79)90015-X

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