Cool Water Coal Gasification Program: Environmental monitoring plan. Final Report, non-proprietary. Executive summary. Report for 1984-1989

Technical Report · Fri Jul 07 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5391986

The Energy Security Act of 1980 established a program to provide financial assistance to private industry in the construction and operation of commercial-scale synthetic-fuels plants. The Cool Water Coal Gasification Program is one of the four projects awarded financial assistance. The Program agreed to comply with existing environmental-monitoring regulations and to develop an Environmental Monitoring Plan incorporating supplemental monitoring in the areas of water, air, solid waste, worker health and safety, and socio-economic impacts during the period 1984-89. As the first commercial-scale integrated gasification combined-cycle plant for generating energy from coal, the plant is designed to process a variety of coals with no liquid discharge, produce non-hazardous solid wastes, and produce very few air emissions. This Executive Summary highlights five years of operations, using main and quench gasifiers and four types of coals. Summary tables demonstrate that environmental performance met all permit requirements, and performance of major pollution-control systems met or exceeded design pollutant-removal efficiencies. Fugitive emissions, waste water, solid waste, ambient air, and indicator parameter monitoring are also discussed. No areas of major environmental concern were identified.

• Research Organization: Cool Water Coal Gasification Program, Daggett, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5391986
• Report Number(s): PB-89-227094/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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