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Title: Colver Power Project: CFB operates at 2400 psig, with reheat, firing waste coal

Abstract

The Colver Power Project (CPP) is located approximately 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA, near Colver, a former mining town. The town was the location of the Ebensburg Coal Co`s Colver Mine and the Blacklick and Yellow Creek Railroad. The mine and railroad produced and transported over 40-million tons of coking and steam coal until they closed in 1978. The 103.5-MW facility has a 25-yr power sales agreement with Pennsylvania Electric Co. (Penelec). Typical of many coal mining regions, the Colver area has stockpiles of bituminous coal waste or gob, a low-Btu, high-ash byproduct of mining activities. These gob stockpiles became an eyesore and a regional environmental hazard. Use of gob as a fuel for circulating-fluidized-bed (CFB) boilers is a proven method for managing this material is an environmentally acceptable manner. Alkaline ash from the combustion process can in turn be used to condition the soil in the gob-pile areas. Using CFB technology creates a win-win situation for all parties involved. The project owners can use the gob as fuel to make and sell power, the local residents get a better environment, and the state avoids having to use tax revenue to clean up the gob piles.

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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
459104
Report Number(s):
CONF-961197-
TRN: 97:001267-0024
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 12. fluidized bed conference, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 11-13 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Twelfth annual fluidized bed conference; PB: 344 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; BOILER FUELS; DESIGN; BITUMINOUS COAL; FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION; FLUIDIZED BED BOILERS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; LIMESTONE

Citation Formats

Ansell, J, Hall, J, and Streblow, B. Colver Power Project: CFB operates at 2400 psig, with reheat, firing waste coal. United States: N. p., 1996. Web.
Ansell, J, Hall, J, & Streblow, B. Colver Power Project: CFB operates at 2400 psig, with reheat, firing waste coal. United States.
Ansell, J, Hall, J, and Streblow, B. 1996. "Colver Power Project: CFB operates at 2400 psig, with reheat, firing waste coal". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Colver Power Project (CPP) is located approximately 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA, near Colver, a former mining town. The town was the location of the Ebensburg Coal Co`s Colver Mine and the Blacklick and Yellow Creek Railroad. The mine and railroad produced and transported over 40-million tons of coking and steam coal until they closed in 1978. The 103.5-MW facility has a 25-yr power sales agreement with Pennsylvania Electric Co. (Penelec). Typical of many coal mining regions, the Colver area has stockpiles of bituminous coal waste or gob, a low-Btu, high-ash byproduct of mining activities. These gob stockpiles became an eyesore and a regional environmental hazard. Use of gob as a fuel for circulating-fluidized-bed (CFB) boilers is a proven method for managing this material is an environmentally acceptable manner. Alkaline ash from the combustion process can in turn be used to condition the soil in the gob-pile areas. Using CFB technology creates a win-win situation for all parties involved. The project owners can use the gob as fuel to make and sell power, the local residents get a better environment, and the state avoids having to use tax revenue to clean up the gob piles.},
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year = {Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996},
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