Phase I: the pipeline gas demonstration plant. Quarterly technical progress report, 2 July--30 September 1977. [Lurgi slagging gasifier]

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OSTI ID:6726199

Watson, W. B.; Sweany, G. A.

In May, 1977, U.S. ERDA and Continental Oil Co. signed a contract for approximately $370,000,000 for the design, construction and operation of a Pipeline Gas Demonstration Plant. The 22-month first phase, Development and Engineering, is fully funded by ERDA and budgeted at about $25,000,000. The remaining six-plus years will be funded on a 50/50 industry/government basis. The project involves the design of a Commercial Plant and a Demonstration Plant. All processes except the gasification process have been demonstrated in commercial ventures elsewhere. The gasification process is the British Gas/Lurgi Slagging Gasifier which was developed in a privately sponsored program at Westfield Development Center in 1975. The Commercial Plant design, based on a plant site in Montgomery Co., Illinois, will produce approximately 250 MMSCFD of pipeline quality gas from 1,050,000 LB/HR. (MAF) Illinois No. 6 coal. The Demonstration Plant is a grass-roots facility located in Noble County, Ohio. The plant will process 202,500 LB/HR. of high-sulfur coal (MAF basis) to produce over 50 MMSCFD of pipeline quality gas with a higher heating value exceeding 955 Btu/SCF. A Technical Support Program utilizing a prototype reactor at the Westfield Development Center, Scotland, is designed to yield information confirming the assumptions used in the Demonstration Plant design. Additionally, use of special materials of construction for critical gasifier components will be demonstrated. Early test runs indicate these objectives can be met.

• Research Organization: Continental Oil Co., Stamford, CT (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6726199
• Report Number(s): FE-2542-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CRG PROCESSES
DEMONSTRATION PLANTS
DESIGN
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