Commercialization of the Dow gasification process

Conference · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1986 · Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Gas Fuel Chem., Prepr.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5605972

Bornemann, G A; Sundstrom, D G

In 1979 the Dow Chemical Company authorized $450 million of the capital to be spent on the Gulf Coast Power Conversion Project, the largest single power project Dow had ever built. This capital was to be spent phasing out less efficient gas-fired boilers at the Texas and Louisiana Divisions and integrating 910 MW of new gas turbine generation capacity into these manufacturing locations. Fuel cost savings were projected to be $200 million per year. Future plans involved utilization of Dow's extensive lignite holdings and then-developing gasification technology to provide our Gulf Coast manufacturing locations with low-cost energy on a long-term basis. Dow completed the installation of the gas turbine facilities in 1982. Now, after Dow's largest single research and development project ever, a price guarantee from the Synthetic Fuels Corporation has provided the incentive to build our first commercial gasifier in Plaquemine, Louisiana, the Dow Syngas Project. Western coal will be transported by rail to the plant site and the product, medium Btu syngas, will be used to fuel existing gas turbines. The output of this facility will be equivalent to 155 MW of net power production.

• Research Organization: Dow Chemical USA, P.O. Box 3387, Houston, TX
• OSTI ID: 5605972
• Report Number(s): CONF-860425-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Gas Fuel Chem., Prepr.; (United States) Journal Volume: 31:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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