Phase 1: the pipeline gas demonstration plant. Design and evaluation of commercial plant. Volume 2. Process and project engineering design

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6326107· OSTI ID:6326107

Contract No. EF-77-C-01-2542 between Continental Oil Company and the United States Department of Energy (DOE) requires Continental Oil Company to design, construct, and operate a Demonstration Plant capable of converting high-sulfur bituminous caking coal to a high-Btu pipeline quality gas. One of the major assignments under the contract is the preparation of a preliminary design of a commercial scale plant based on the process to be demonstrated. This report covers the process engineering design and the project engineering design of the Commercial Plant. The Commercial Plant consists of eight process units, five by-product recovery units, and the requisite off-site facilities. The process units consist of Coal and Flux Handling and Preparation, Air Separation, Gasification (British Gas Lurgi Slagging Gasifier), Shift Conversion, Gas Cooling, Rectisol, Methanation, and Product Gas Compression and Drying. The by-product recovery units consist of Sulfur Recovery, Slag Handling and Disposal, Gas Liquor Separation, Phenol Extraction, and Ammonia Recovery. The Commercial Plant is designed to manufacture 242 million standard cubic feet per stream day of 960 Btu per standard cubic foot pipeline quality gas. Coal feed to the process is 16,879 tons per stream day of Illinois No. 6 coal. An additional 4,488 tons per stream day of coal are required for steam-power generation. The following quantities in tons/day of by-products ae produced for sales: Coal Fines, 6,764; Crude Phenols, 69; Naphtha, 180; Tar Oil, 262; Anhydrous Ammonia, 48; and Sulfur, 919.

• Research Organization: Continental Oil Co., Stamford, CT (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6326107
• Report Number(s): FE-2542-10(Vol.2)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COAL GASIFICATION
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