One measure of the scale of a process is its throughputs of fuel or other input raw materials, e.g., lbs of coal per hour. Compare the coal throughputs for a small-scale experiment that uses 10 mg of coal in 6 seconds, and a single boiler in a large commercial-scale  central-station electric generating plant. Assume: the commercial facility has a total  output of 1,020 MW e supplied by three boilers of equal capacity; the boiler has a heat  rate of (8,980 Btu th /hr)/(kW e ) based on fuel HHV, and fires coal with a gross heating  value (i.e., HHV) of 14,000 Btu th /lb.

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4) One measure of the scale of a process is its throughputs of fuel or other input raw materials, e.g., lbs of coal per hour. Compare the coal throughputs for a small-scale experiment that uses 10 mg of coal in 6 seconds, and a single boiler in a large commercial-scale 
central-station electric generating plant. Assume: the commercial facility has a total 
output of 1,020 MW e supplied by three boilers of equal capacity; the boiler has a heat 
rate of (8,980 Btu th /hr)/(kW e ) based on fuel HHV, and fires coal with a gross heating 
value (i.e., HHV) of 14,000 Btu th /lb.

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