Engineer, design, construct, test and evaluate a pressurized fluidized bed pilot plant using high sulfur coal for production of electric power. Phase I. Preliminary engineering. Topical report, 1 March 1976-1 June 1977

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5274845· OSTI ID:5274845

Moskowitz, S.; Cole, R.; Defeo, A.

A promising approach for clean, cost-competitive, electric power generation from coal with improved power cycle efficiency involves the application of a pressurized fluidized bed (PFB) combustor to a combined cycle. Based on a conceptual design of a 500 MW base load power station, a configuration for a pilot electric plant was selected which will use high sulfur (> 31%) coal in the presence of a sulfur sorbent (dolomite) material. The gas turbine in this system provides one-third of its compressor airflow to the fluidized bed for coal combustion and the balance of flow to the in-bed heat exchanger. The pilot plant will have the capacity for generating an equivalent of 13 MW. The gas turbine provides over 7 MW of electric power and the steam generated by the waste heat recovery boiler is 58,000 lb/hour. The plant equipment is over 40 percent of the physical size of the commercial plant design. The pilot plant will be a conversion of an existing Total Energy System located at the Wood-Ridge, New Jersey manufacturing facility of Curtiss-Wright. This report describes the plant arrangement, the equipment design configuration, and plant performance.

• Research Organization: Curtiss-Wright Corp., Wood-Ridge, NJ (USA). Power Systems Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-76ET10417
• OSTI ID: 5274845
• Report Number(s): FE-1726-22A; CW-WR-76-015.22A
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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