Cool Water Coal Gasification Program: Environmental Monitoring Plan. Volume 1-5, Section 1-12, Appendices A-F. Report for 1984-89

Technical Report · Fri Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5391999

The Energy Security Act of 1980 established a program to provide financial assistance to private industry in the construction and operation of commercial-scale synthetic-fuels plants. The Cool Water Coal Gasification Program is one of the four projects awarded financial assistance. The Program agreed to comply with existing environmental-monitoring regulations and to develop an Environmental Monitoring Plan incorporating supplemental monitoring in the areas of water, air, solid waste, worker health and safety, and socioeconomic impacts during the period 1984-1989. As the first commercial-scale integrated gasification combined-cycle plant for generating energy from coal, the plant is designed to process a variety of coals with no liquid discharge, produce non-hazardous solid wastes, and produce very few air emissions. This report concludes the analysis of potential environmental impacts due to operation of this particular technology. Indicator parameters and correlations are discussed along with summaries of results while operating the main and quench gasifiers, and burning four types of coal. The extensive data demonstrate environmental acceptability of integrated coal gasification using both high-sulfur Eastern coals and low-sulfur Western coals; 97% sulfur removal was achieved.

• Research Organization: Cool Water Coal Gasification Program, Daggett, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5391999
• Report Number(s): PB-89-227086/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Also pub. as Radian Corp., Sacramento, CA. rept. no. DCN-89-218-049-106. See also PB--89-160899
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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