Laboratory analysis of solvent refined coal. Technical report No. 1

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:7217347

Borio, R W

With respect to air pollution control in electric power generation, two basic routes are being pursued; one is to clean up the flue gas before admitting it to the atmosphere and the other is to clean up the fuel before it is burned in the utility boiler. Southern Services Company has been actively pursuing a Solvent Refined Coal (SRC) process and has completed construction of a pilot plant at Wilsonville, Alabama in late 1973. The Southern Services process solubilizes about 95 percent of the moisture-ash-free coal in a dissolver operated at 1800 psig and 825F with a residence time on the order of 30 minutes. Combustion Engineering, under EPRI funding, has agreed to conduct a bench-scale analysis of the solvent refined coal (and base coal) produced by Southern Services' Wilsonville pilot plant. The objective of this study is to determine, within the limits of bench-scale analysis, the technical feasibility of using Southern Services' SRC as a utility power plant fuel. (GRA)

• Research Organization: C-E Power Systems, Windsor, CT (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7217347
• Report Number(s): PB-255550
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010407* -- Coal & Coal Products-- Solvent Extraction-- (-1987)
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL PREPARATION
COMBUSTION
COMMINUTION
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
OXIDATION
PILOT PLANTS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SOLVENT-REFINED COAL
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES