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Title: Second-generation pressurized fluidized bed combustion plant commercialization plan: Task 4 report

Abstract

This report presents a plan for moving coal-fired second-generation pressurized fluidized bed (PFB) combustion plants from their present conceptual stage to and through the sale of the first commercial electric utility plant by 2000; market penetration analyses are also included. A second-generation PFB plant can operate with an efficiency of 45 percent (based on the higher heating value of the coal used as fuel) and achieve a cost of electricity at least 20 percent lower than that of a conventional pulverized-coal-fired plant with wet-limestone flue gas desulfurization. Compared with conventional and other newly emerging power plant technologies, projections indicate that the proposed plant should capture a market share of 12.7 percent in 2010 and of 60 percent in 2020. A second-generation PFB combustion plant integrates a coal pyrolyzer/carbonizer with a circulating pressurized fluidized bed combustor (CPFBC). Char produced in the carbonizer is burned in the CPFBC, and the low-Btu fuel gas produced in the carbonizer is burned in a topping combustor to heat the CPFBC exhaust gas to 2100{degree}F and higher before it enters a gas turbine. The carbonizer and CPFBC operate with lime-based sorbents for in-situ sulfur capture at {le}1600{degree}F. Components being developed for first-generation PFB combustion plants protectmore » the gas turbine from corrosion, erosion, and deposition. 23 refs., 35 figs., 24 tabs.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Foster Wheeler Development Corp., Livingston, NJ (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/FE
OSTI Identifier:
5318036
Report Number(s):
DOE/MC/21023-2747
ON: DE90000406
DOE Contract Number:  
AC21-86MC21023
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; COAL; FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION; POWER PLANTS; DESIGN; CARBONIZATION; CHARS; COMMERCIALIZATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GAS TURBINES; HOT GAS CLEANUP; LIMESTONE; MARKET; MATERIAL BALANCE; SORPTION; SULFUR; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CARBONATE ROCKS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMBUSTION; DECOMPOSITION; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; MACHINERY; MATERIALS; NONMETALS; OXIDATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; PURIFICATION; PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINERY; 200100* - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Power Plants & Power Generation; 200600 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects- (1990-); 014000 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Combustion

Citation Formats

Hirschenhofer, J. H., and Robertson, A. S. Second-generation pressurized fluidized bed combustion plant commercialization plan: Task 4 report. United States: N. p., 1989. Web. doi:10.2172/5318036.
Hirschenhofer, J. H., & Robertson, A. S. Second-generation pressurized fluidized bed combustion plant commercialization plan: Task 4 report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5318036
Hirschenhofer, J. H., and Robertson, A. S. 1989. "Second-generation pressurized fluidized bed combustion plant commercialization plan: Task 4 report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5318036. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5318036.
@article{osti_5318036,
title = {Second-generation pressurized fluidized bed combustion plant commercialization plan: Task 4 report},
author = {Hirschenhofer, J. H. and Robertson, A. S.},
abstractNote = {This report presents a plan for moving coal-fired second-generation pressurized fluidized bed (PFB) combustion plants from their present conceptual stage to and through the sale of the first commercial electric utility plant by 2000; market penetration analyses are also included. A second-generation PFB plant can operate with an efficiency of 45 percent (based on the higher heating value of the coal used as fuel) and achieve a cost of electricity at least 20 percent lower than that of a conventional pulverized-coal-fired plant with wet-limestone flue gas desulfurization. Compared with conventional and other newly emerging power plant technologies, projections indicate that the proposed plant should capture a market share of 12.7 percent in 2010 and of 60 percent in 2020. A second-generation PFB combustion plant integrates a coal pyrolyzer/carbonizer with a circulating pressurized fluidized bed combustor (CPFBC). Char produced in the carbonizer is burned in the CPFBC, and the low-Btu fuel gas produced in the carbonizer is burned in a topping combustor to heat the CPFBC exhaust gas to 2100{degree}F and higher before it enters a gas turbine. The carbonizer and CPFBC operate with lime-based sorbents for in-situ sulfur capture at {le}1600{degree}F. Components being developed for first-generation PFB combustion plants protect the gas turbine from corrosion, erosion, and deposition. 23 refs., 35 figs., 24 tabs.},
doi = {10.2172/5318036},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5318036}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
month = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1989}
}