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Title: Great Plains Gasification Project status report

Abstract

The Great Plains Gasification Project is the first commercial synthetic fuels project based on coal conversion in the US. The goal is to convert North Dakota lignite into pipeline quality synthetic natural gas (SNG). The project consists of an open pit coal mine, a gasification plant, and an SNG pipeline in Mercer County, North Dakota. The project took 12 years from its conception to the production in 1984 of SNG for users. The author describes the plant's basic processes, the start-up activities and schedule, and some of the more interesting start-up problems.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Great Plains Gasification Associates, Beulah, ND
OSTI Identifier:
6006268
Report Number(s):
CONF-850301-
Journal ID: CODEN: ENTED
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Energy Technol. (Wash., D.C.); (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Conference: 12. annual energy technology conference and exposition, Washington, DC, USA, 25 Mar 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; COAL GASIFICATION; COMMERCIALIZATION; COAL GASIFICATION PLANTS; START-UP; NORTH DAKOTA; LIGNITE; PERFORMANCE; SURFACE MINING; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION; BROWN COAL; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; COAL; ENERGY SOURCES; FEDERAL REGION VIII; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GASIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MATERIALS; MINING; NORTH AMERICA; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; USA; 010404* - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Gasification

Citation Formats

Pollock, D C. Great Plains Gasification Project status report. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Pollock, D C. Great Plains Gasification Project status report. United States.
Pollock, D C. 1985. "Great Plains Gasification Project status report". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Great Plains Gasification Project is the first commercial synthetic fuels project based on coal conversion in the US. The goal is to convert North Dakota lignite into pipeline quality synthetic natural gas (SNG). The project consists of an open pit coal mine, a gasification plant, and an SNG pipeline in Mercer County, North Dakota. The project took 12 years from its conception to the production in 1984 of SNG for users. The author describes the plant's basic processes, the start-up activities and schedule, and some of the more interesting start-up problems.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6006268}, journal = {Energy Technol. (Wash., D.C.); (United States)},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985},
month = {Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985}
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