The power systems development facility at Wilsonville, Alabama

Conference · Fri Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:126506

Longanbach, J R ^[1]; Pinkston, E ^[2]

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1. Dept. of Energy, Morgantown, WV (United States)
2. Southern Co. Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (United States)

A Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) is being built at Southern Company Service`s Clean Coal Research Center at Wilsonville, Alabama. The facility will be used for component testing and system integration of hot filters under gasification and pressurized combustion conditions for advanced coal-based power generation systems. The PSDF combines several pilot-scale test facilities at a single site to reduce the overall capital and operating costs compared to individual stand-alone facilities. M.W. Kellogg`s transport reactor technology will provide either an oxidizing or a reducing gas for parametric testing of hot particulate control devices. Later, gas from the transport reactor will be used to power a fuel cell. Foster Wheeler`s advanced pressurized fluidized-bed combustion (APFBC) technology, in which coal is partially converted to a fuel gas in a carbonizer with the remaining char converted in a PFBC, will be studied. A low NOx multi-annular swirl burner, firing the carbonizer fuel gas and combustor flue gas to power a gas turbine, will be tested with the PFBC.

• OSTI ID: 126506
• Report Number(s): CONF-950402--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
DESIGN
FLUE GAS
FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION
FUEL GAS
HOT GAS CLEANUP
TEST FACILITIES