Phase I: the pipeline gas demonstration plant. Technical support program report

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6226293· OSTI ID:6226293

Aul, E. F.; Curran, G. P.; Fink, C. E.; Heunisch, G. W.; Spangler, M. D.; Sudbury, J. D.

Contract No. EF-77-C-01-2542 between Continental Oil Company and the U.S. Department of Energy requires Continental Oil to design, construct, and operate a demonstration plant capable of converting bituminous caking coals into pipeline quality gas. One of the assignments under the contract is to obtain the requisite data base for the process and engineering design of the demonstration plant. The British Gas/Lurgi slagging gasifier was the process selected by the contractor to convert the coal to a crude synthesis gas which can be processes to yield pipeline quality gas. This gasifier had been primarily developed, prior to the contract execution date, for processing non-caking bituminous and subbituminous coals, but the data base was insufficient for designing the gasifier and associated upstream and downstream processing units for processing the coals selected for the demonstration plant. A technical support program to provide the requisite data base was implemented at the Westfield Development Centre of British Gas Corporation. This facility was selected because a large slagging gasifier pilot plant is located there. The technical support program has been completed, and the data and information required by British Gas Corporation and Lurgi Kohle und Mineraloeltechnik to design the gasifier and the gasification section of the demonstration plant were obtained. The program also provided the data and other information needed to design the associated upstream and downstream processing units. The technical support program verified that the British Gas/Lurgi slagging gasifier can satisfactorily process bituminous caking coals, and considerable start-up and operating experience on such coals was obtained in carrying out the program.

• Research Organization: Continental Oil Co., Stamford, CT (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6226293
• Report Number(s): FE-2542-13
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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