Colorado-Ute Nucla Station circulating-fluidized-bed (CFB) demonstration

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:6211730

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has completed a demonstration project at Nucla Station, owned and operated by Colorado-Ute Electric Association. This station was recently retrofitted with a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler and its capacity was raised from 36 to 110 MWe. The new boiler supplies all the steam needed to operate the retrofitted station. At the time of its commissioning in 1987, the boiler was the largest of its kind in the world and represented the first full-scale utility CFB installation. The EPRI demonstration project is documented in two reports. The first of these, titled Test Program Preparation,'' covers the preparatory work leading up to actual testing. The second, titled Test Program Results,'' is contained in this volume and includes a description of the test work and its results as well as the conclusions with respect to the merits of CFB boilers in utility service. 124 figs., 28 tabs.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Bechtel Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6211730
• Report Number(s): EPRI-GS-7483-Vol.2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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