Biomass Cofiring with Coal at Seward, Pennsylvania
- GPU Genco (United States)
- Foster Wheeler Environmental (United States)
The first test under the EPRI/FETC biomass cofiring process was at GPU Genco`s 32-MW{sub e} pulverized coal boiler at Seward, Pennsylvania. The unit used in the test (Boiler 12) is a wall-fired boiler built by Babcock & Wilcox, and has a nominal steaming capacity of 300,000 lb/hr of 675 psig/850 F stream. The furnace of Boiler 12 has a volume of 20,000 ft{sup 3} and has a volume in the primary combustion area of 12,700 ft{sup 3}. The boiler has two rows of burners, with three burners installed on each row. Typically it consumes coal at about 14 ton/hr when firing at 100 percent of capacity. This boiler, along with Boiler 14, supply steam to a 64 MW{sub e} Westinghouse turbine. The net station heat rate (NSHR) for Boilers 12 and 14, and the associated turbine, is 14,200 Btu/kWh. Boiler 14 has been used to test coal water slurry (CWS), and that experience contributed to the design and execution of this cofiring test, where sawdust was the biomass fuel.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC22-96PC96252
- OSTI ID:
- 611847
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/PC/96252--98/C0921; CONF-970772--; ON: DE98051685
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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