Engineer, design, construct, test and evaluate a pressurized fluidized bed pilot plant using high sulfur coal for production of electric power. Phase I. Preliminary engineering. Quarterly report, June 1-August 31, 1977

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5596904· OSTI ID:5596904

The PFB pilot plant preliminary design and performance analysis were completed. The preliminary designs of the primary and secondary cyclones, air/gas piping and auxiliary combustor, materials handling and injection systems, and controls and instrumentation were finalized. Provision for maintenance and servicing have been incorporated and the plant arrangement includes area for alternate or advanced components for possible future evaluations. Technology support tests of the heat exchanger tubes in both the AFB and PFB combustor rigs and tests of the heat exchanger and turbine candidate materials have been completed. Heat exchanger tube candidate materials were tested in two Dorr-Oliver client FB reactors and test results are presented. The tests were of 670 and 1700 hours duration at temperature conditions representative of the Pilot Plant PFB. The specimens from one of the reactors was reinstalled for additional testing up to 5000 hours. The heat exchanger module installed in the NRDC Leatherhead facility was tested for a total of 100 hours over a range of conditions up to 1750/sup 0/F bed temperature. The heat exchanger has been returned to Curtiss-Wright where it will be inspected and analyzed.

• Research Organization: Curtiss-Wright Corp., Wood-Ridge, NJ (USA). Power Systems Div.
• OSTI ID: 5596904
• Report Number(s): FE-1726-24A; CW-WR-76-015.24A
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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