PFBC perspectives at the Power Systems Development Facility
- Southern Co. Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (United States)
- Foster Wheeler Development Corp., Livingston, NJ (United States)
- Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., Clinton, NJ (United States)
The use of coal for power generation has come under increasing environmental scrutiny over the past five years. Advances in coal-based power generation technology will develop systems that have high efficiency, environmental superiority and lower cost of electricity compared to current coal-based technology. Advanced pressurized-fluidized-bed combustion (APFBC) is one `of the promising emerging power generation technologies striving to achieve these goals. One method of improving the efficiency and lowering the capital cost further for advanced power plants utilizing coal is by employing hot gas cleanup. Although hot gas cleanup has the potential for improving the viability of coal-based power generation, the removal of hot particulates from the gas stream has proven to be a challenging task. The demonstration of APFBC technology and the particulate control devices (PCDs) under realistic conditions for advanced power generation remain important areas for development. The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) is being designed to be a flexible facility that will address the development of the PCDs and an advanced second-generation PFBC technology. With the progress made in the last decade, the basic concepts of PFBC technology can be achieved through a number of different flowsheets and reactor configurations. The choices made in developing the flowsheets and the choices made in designing the equipment in order to improve the reliability of operation may well dictate, along with the actual data from operation, the process efficiencies and the capital costs that can be achieved.
- Research Organization:
- Southern Co. Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC21-90MC25140
- OSTI ID:
- 10158603
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/25140-94/C0342; CONF-9405124-4; ON: DE94013216; BR: AA0510000/AA3510000
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) fluidized-bed combustion for power generation conference,Atlanta, GA (United States),17-19 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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