Coal gasification project, Douglas site, Pike County, Kentucky. Annual report, April 1978-March 1979

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5454098· OSTI ID:5454098

Puffer, G. R.

The objective of this work, primarily, is to use coal gasifiers in conjunction with an energy plant using state of the art equipment as the sole energy system to support a Governmental-Commercial development with provisions to furnish low Btu gas to industrial users in the future. Secondarily, the objective is to provide a demonstration facility serving to collect technical, environmental and economic data on a low Btu gasification system. All phases of the program, i.e., design, fabrication, installation, and up to three years of operation, will be evaluated to furnish data for the basis of analyzing the utilization of coal gasification for similar applications. The initial concept of the project did not extend beyond the design, installation, and operation of a basic energy plant consisting of gas producers, boilers, chillers, and the required ancillary pumps, motors, etc. necessary to provide hot and/or chilled water for heating and cooling with the surplus producer gas, if any, being available for sale to possible future industrial users. However, immediately after the signing of the Cooperative Agreement, the decision was made by the Federal Agency then in charge, the United States Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), to add the design of a gas cleanup system to the project with the understanding that future modifications to the Cooperative Agreement would be made to enable the construction of this unit. The design of the cleanup system was included at this time in order that the costs and the physical space requirements could be more accurately estimated and the future final decisions regarding the additional funding required might proceed in an orderly manner.

• Research Organization: Pike County Coal Gasification Project, Pikeville, KY (USA); Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc., Lexington, KY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EF-77-A-01-2570
• OSTI ID: 5454098
• Report Number(s): FE-2570-24
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
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FLUIDS
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FUELS
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