Integrated carbonizer/CPFBC pilot plant construction and testing

Conference · Sat Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:52001

Robertson, A; Van Hook, J ^[1]

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1. Foster Wheeler Development Corp., Livingston, NJ (United States)

The key components of second-generation or advanced pressurized fluidized bed combustion (APFBC) plants have been successfully tested separately at the pilot plant scale. The tests involved a 254-mm (10-in.)-diameter bubbling bed carbonizer, a 203-mm (8-in.)-diameter circulating bed carbonizer, and a 203-mm (8-in.)-diameter circulating pressurized fluidized bed combustor operating at 1.42-MPa (14-atm) pressure. In these tests particle-capturing ceramic barrier filters were incorporated to investigate gas compatibility issues. The next step in the development of APFBC plant technology is to integrate a carbonizer and a CPFBC, together with their ceramic barrier filters, and then operate the subsystem to investigate integration characteristics. These tests will involve load following and transfer of the char from the reducing atmosphere of the carbonizer to the oxidizing atmosphere of the CPFBC at steady and controlled rates. This paper describes the integrated carbonizer/CPFBC pilot plant that is being constructed to perform these tests at Foster Wheeler Development Corporation`s John Blizard Research Center in Livingston, New Jersey. Construction and commissioning progress are presented, along with an overview of test data collected to date.

• DOE Contract Number: AC21-86MC21023
• OSTI ID: 52001
• Report Number(s): CONF-940930--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
CARBONIZATION
CHARS
COAL
COMBINED-CYCLE POWER PLANTS
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
FLUIDIZED BED BOILERS
FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION
HOT GAS CLEANUP
LOW BTU GAS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PILOT PLANTS
PRESSURIZATION
SORBENT INJECTION PROCESSES
SYNTHESIS
TEST FACILITIES
TOPPING CYCLES