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An evaluation of the United Kingdom Clean Coal Power Generation Group`s air-blown gasification cycle

Conference ·
OSTI ID:504640
;  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  2. Bechtel Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
  3. British Coal Corp., Cheltenham (United Kingdom)
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is conducting an engineering and economic study of various pressurized fluidized-bed combustor (PFBC) designs. Studies have been completed on bubbling and circulating PFBC technologies and on an advanced PFBC power plant technology, in which the feed coal is partially gasified and the residual char burned in a PFBC. The United Kingdom Clean Coal Power Generation Group`s (CCPGG) air-blown gasification cycle (ABGC), known formerly as the British Coal Topping Cycle, also partially gasifies the feed coal, but uses a circulating atmospheric fluidized-bed combustor (AFBC) to burn the residual char. Although not a PFBC plant, the study was completed to effect a comparison with the advanced PFBC cycle.
OSTI ID:
504640
Report Number(s):
CONF-960954--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English