SCE coal gasification demonstration project. Revised draft environmental impact report. [Revised draft E. I. S]

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:6799059

Southern California Edison (SCE) has applied to the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a certificate to construct and operate an integrated coal gasification/combined cycle demonstration power plant. SCE proposes to test the facility for seven years beginning in 1983. The project will consist of a 1000 ton per day coal gasification system coupled with a new, approximately 100 MW (gross) combined cycle generating unit. This would be the largest gasifier in the United States, and the first integrated coal/gas combined cycle power plant. SCE plans to construct the project on their property at the Cool Water Generating Station. Cool Water is located in the Southern California Mojave Desert in northwest San Bernardino County, approximately 12 miles southeast of the City of Barstow and 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate an integrated system for turning coal into a clean burning synthetic gas and to use that gas to generate electricity. The plant will generate electricity by burning the synthetic gas in a gas turbine which will drive an electric generator. An oxygen blown Texaco Coal Gasification process will make the fuel for the new power plant. There are three waste problems created by the project: solid, liquid, and gaseous. The project will create approximately 275,000 tons of slag over its life. SCE intends to dispose of the slag in a 12 acre area in the southeast corner of their property.

• Research Organization: California Energy Commission, Sacramento (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6799059
• Report Number(s): P-700-79-010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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