Environmental, health, safety and socioeconomic program plan for surface gasification. Draft

Technical Report · Fri Feb 27 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6276748

This document presents the program plan developed by the Norgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to identify, schedule, manage, and budget environmental, health, safety, and socioeconomic (EHS and S) activities which apply to surface coal gasification projects for which DOE has management responsibility. The overall goal of the program plan is to facilitate demonstration of the environmental acceptability of planned or operating PDU's, pilot plants, and corresponding coal gasification processes anticipated to achieve commercialization. This program plan aims at obtaining and analyzing pilot plant and PDU information and extrapolating that data to predict EHS and S impacts at the demonstration/commercial scale. The data will be obtained and analyzed from two distinct perspectives: current site compliance needs must be satisfied and resources apportioned to fill gaps where identified, and pilot and small scale data must be extrapolated to develop and promote overall demonstration/commercial scale technology packages which are technically, economically, and environmentally sound. The ultimate objective of the EHS and S program is to develop project-specific implementation plans which coordinate the compliance and operational (C and O) activities with the R and D activities, and to define the strategy for accomplishing the activities identified in this program plan. These implementation plans are not contained in this document; they will be prepared by the close of FY 1981.

• Research Organization: USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center, WV
• OSTI ID: 6276748
• Report Number(s): DOE/NBM-6007558; ON: DE86007558
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010404* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Gasification
010900 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Environmental Aspects
016000 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Health & Safety
BI-GAS PROCESS
CE ENTRAINED FUEL PROCESS
COAL GASIFICATION
COAL GASIFICATION PLANTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GASIFICATION
GEGAS PROCESS
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
MANAGEMENT
PILOT PLANTS
PLANNING
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
SAFETY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
U-GAS PROCESS
WESTINGHOUSE GASIFICATION PROCESS