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Combined cycle power plant incorporating coal gasification

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OSTI ID:863983
A combined cycle power plant incorporating a coal gasifier as the energy source. The gases leaving the coal gasifier pass through a liquid couplant heat exchanger before being used to drive a gas turbine. The exhaust gases of the gas turbine are used to generate both high pressure and low pressure steam for driving a steam turbine, before being exhausted to the atmosphere.
Assignee:
Combustion Engineering, Inc. (Windsor, CT)
Patent Number(s):
US 4288979
OSTI ID:
863983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English