Testing the future of power
Power technology continues to advance towards greater efficiency and lower emissions, providing more options for producers when it comes to choosing the design that`s right for a specific set of technical and business requirements. Foster Wheeler is leading the development of one such technology for a new type of coal-fired plant to generate electric power. The company calls it `topping pressurized circulating fluidized-bed combustion`, or topping PCFB combustion. Research into this technology and its demonstration is being carried out jointly by industry and government under US Department of Energy contracts. A key element of this work has been the tests conducted with the PCFB pilot plant at Foster Wheeler Development Corporation`s research centers in Livingston, New Jersey, and Karhula, Finland. The program will also involve tests at a much larger facility under construction in Alabama and at a commercial-scale demonstration plant to be built in Florida.
- OSTI ID:
- 569396
- Journal Information:
- Heat Engineering, Vol. 61, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Sum 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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