US industry installing large CFB cogen systems
Pyropower Corp. of San Diego, CA was set up by a Finland company in 1980 to market, design, and handle installation needs for facilities in the US, using the company's circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) concept. Several plants were completed in the early '80s followed by increasingly larger ones. General Motors, Pontiac, Mich. Division, the largest completed to date and recently on-line, is rated at 27 MWe output, all of which GM expects to use in-house; total installation cost was about $45 million and involves use of a 300,000 lb/hr CFB boiler that replaced two stoker-fired existing boilers. Part of the steam (at 1460 psi and 955/sup 0/F) is supplied for space heating for the large Fiera assembly plant, and the rest will be expanded through a General Electric condensing-steam turbine. Two even larger plants are in early construction stages: a 49-MWe plant for CPC International at Stockton, CA, and a 49-MWe installation on the new Ft. Drum Army base in New York. Pyropower is also involved in the Colorado-Ute Electric Ass'n. NUCLA CFB project for which it is supplying the world's first utility-scale CBB boiler. The next step technology-wise for Pyropower will be to a pressurized fluidized-bed system.
- OSTI ID:
- 5525788
- Journal Information:
- Cogeneration; (United States), Journal Name: Cogeneration; (United States) Vol. 4:5; ISSN COGEE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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