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Title: US bituminous coal test program in the British Gas/Lurgi (BGL) gasifier. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10127450
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  1. British Gas plc, London (United Kingdom)
  2. Lurgi GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

The BGL moving-bed, slagging-gasification process is an extension of the commercially proven Lurgi dry-ash, moving-bed gasification process. British Gas and Lurgi have demonstrated the process over an 11-year period at the 350 and 500 t/d scale at British Gas` Westfield Development Center, Scotland, with a wide variety of US and British coals. British Gas also installed a gas purification and HICOM methanation plant at Westfield to treat approximately 190,000 sft{sup 3}/h of purified syngas. Objectives are: To demonstrate the suitability of US bituminous coals as feed-stocks in the BGL gasification process; to provide performance data for use in designing commercial-scale BGL-based gasification-combined-cycle (GCC) power plants; and to evaluate the performance of the British Gas HICOM process for methanation of US coal-derived syngas.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Gas Research Inst., Chicago, IL (United States); British Gas plc, London (United Kingdom); Lurgi GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Sponsoring Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
10127450
Report Number(s):
EPRI-GS-7091; ON: UN92008793
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English