High performance power system development including scaling considerations

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:549961

Shenker, J; Torpey, M ^[1]

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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
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
COAL GAS
COAL GASIFICATION
COAL-FIRED GAS TURBINES
COMBINED-CYCLE POWER PLANTS
DESIGN
PYROLYSIS