Feasibility and status of coal gasification combined cycle plant in Japan
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Nishi-ku Yokohama (Japan)
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) is regarded as the most powerful candidate for new coal firing power plant in the next generation, because of the following two points: it has a significantly high net thermal efficiency of 46-50+% which can be achieved by increasing the gas turbine inlet temperature, and it maintains superior environmental performance attained by means of a conversion process from {open_quotes}dirty{close_quotes} coal to {open_quotes}clean{close_quotes} purified gas and the disposal of glassy slag ash. IGCC R&D in JAPAN is being carried out as a part of the {open_quotes}Sunshine Project{close_quotes}, a national project concerned with promoting the use of new energies. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) had started the IGCC R&D project in 1974, to focus on a fluidized bed coal gasifiers. In 1986, MITI commissioned the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to restart an IGCC R&D project using an air blown entrained bed coal gasifier at the NAKOSO 200 ton/day pilot plant, the over all plant project schedule.
- OSTI ID:
- 430274
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960376--
- Journal Information:
- Preprints of Papers, American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, Journal Name: Preprints of Papers, American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 41; ISSN 0569-3772; ISSN ACFPAI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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