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Title: High performance power system development including scaling considerations

Conference ·
OSTI ID:549961
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  1. Foster Wheeler Development Corp., Livingston, NJ (United States)

A High-Performance Power System (HIPPS) is being developed under the sponsorship of the United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC). This system is a coal-fired combined cycle that uses a High Temperature Advanced Furnace (HITAF) to transfer much of the heat to the air- and steam-working fluids. Systems of this type are capable of ovr 47% efficiency (HHV). The Foster Wheeler design uses a pyrolyzation process to convert the coal into fuel gas and char. Having these two fuels available allows the design of a totally coal fueled HIPPS with currently available materials. Foster Wheeler Development corporation (FWDC) is leading a team of companies in the development of this power generation system. The team member companies are AlliedSignal Inc., Bechtel Corporation, Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, University of Tennessee Space Institute and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cornell University are working on a separately funded DOE project titled The Scale-Up of Large Pressurized Fluidized Beds for Advanced Coal-Fired power processes. The work being done in this project will be used to support the scale up of results from the pyrolyzer testing.

OSTI ID:
549961
Report Number(s):
CONF-961006-; ISBN 0-7918-1796-2; TRN: IM9753%%36
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1996 international joint power generation conference, Houston, TX (United States), 13-17 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 1996 international joint power generation conference: Proceedings. Volume 2; PWR-Volume 30; Kielasa, L. [ed.] [Detroit Edison Co., MI (United States)]; Weed, G.E. [ed.] [Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY (United States)]; PB: 936 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English