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Title: Evaluation of gasification and gas-cleanup processes for use in molten-carbonate fuel-cell power plants

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5270210

This interim report satisfies the Task B requirement to define process configurations for systems suitable for supplying fuel to molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC) in industrial and utility power plants. The configurations studied include entrained, fluidized-bed, gravitating-bed, and molten salt gasifiers, both air and oxygen blown. Desulfurization systems utilizing wet scrubbing processes, such as Selexol and Rectisol II, and dry sorbents, such as iron oxide and dolomite, were chosen for evaluation. Cleanup systems not chosen by DOE's MCFC contractors, General Electric and United Technologies, Inc., for their MCFC power plant work by virtue of the resource requirements of those systems for commercial development were chosen for detailed study in Tasks C and D of this contract. Such systems include Westinghouse fluidized-bed gasification, air and oxygen blown, Rockwell molten carbonate air-blown gasification, METC iron oxide desulfurization, and dolomitic desulfurization. In addition, for comparison, gasification systems such as the Texaco entrained and the British Gas/Lurgi slagging units, along with wet scrubbing by Rectisol II, have also been chosen for detailed study.

Research Organization:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Research and Development Center
DOE Contract Number:
AC21-81MC16220
OSTI ID:
5270210
Report Number(s):
DOE/MC/16220-T5; ON: DE82013942
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English