Combustion and fuel characterization of coal-water fuels

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6471577· OSTI ID:6471577

Chow, O K; Patel, R L; Levasseur, A A

Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC) of the Department of Energy initiated a comprehensive effort in 1982 to develop the necessary performance and cost data and to assess the commercial viability of coal-water fuels (CWFs) as applied to representative utility and industrial units. The effort comprised six tasks beginning with coal resource evaluation and culminating in the assessment of the technical and economic consequences of switching representative commercial units from oil to state-of-the-art CWF firing. Extensive bench, pilot and commercial-scale tests were performed to develop necessary CWF combustion and fireside performance data for the subsequent boiler performance analyses and retrofit cost estimates. Discussions on transport, rheology, combustion properties, and ash characterization are included. 11 refs., 9 figs., 7 tabs.

• Research Organization: Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/FE
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-82PC50271
• OSTI ID: 6471577
• Report Number(s): DOE/PC/50271-T3-Vol.3; ON: DE91000994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010600 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Properties & Composition
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Lignite
& Peat-- Combustion
ASH CONTENT
ATOMIZATION
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
COMBUSTION PROPERTIES
CORROSIVE EFFECTS
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL SLURRIES
FUELS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
IGNITION
MATERIALS
MIXTURES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RHEOLOGY
SLURRIES
SUSPENSIONS
TRANSPORT
VISCOSITY
WATER