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Sulfur recovery from low-quality natural gas

Description: The objectives of this work are to (1) demonstrate on a bench-scale the Direct Sulfur Recovery Process (DSRP) for up to 99% or higher recovery of sulfur (as elemental sulfur) from SO{sub 2}-containing regeneration off-gases produced in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generating systems employing hot-gas cleanup and (2) promote DSRP technology transfer to industry. The treatment of SO{sub 2}-containing regeneration off-previously (Gangwal and McMichael, 1991). Technology tran… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Ganwal, S.K. & McMichael, W.J.
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Advanced coal-fueled gas turbine systems reference system definition update

Description: The objective of the the Direct Coal-Fueled 80 MW Combustion Turbine Program is to establish the technology required for private sector use of an advanced coal-fueled combustion turbine power system. Under this program the technology for a direct coal-fueled 80 MW combustion turbine is to be developed. This unit would be an element in a 207 MW direct coal-fueled combustion turbine combined cycle which includes two combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine. Key … more
Date: September 1, 1991
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Materials performance in fluidized-bed air heaters

Description: Development of cogeneration systems that involve combustion of coal in a fluidized bed and use of air heaters to generate hot air for turbine systems has been in progress for a number of years. The US Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored the Atmospheric Fluidized-Bed Cogeneration Air Heater Experiment (ACAHE) to assess the performance of various heat exchanger materials and establish confidence in the resultant designs of fluidized-bed-combustion air heater systems. Westinghouse Electric Corpor… more
Date: December 1, 1991
Creator: Natesan, K. & Podolski, W.
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Advanced Hydrogen Turbine Development

Description: Siemens has developed a roadmap to achieve the DOE goals for efficiency, cost reduction, and emissions through innovative approaches and novel technologies which build upon worldwide IGCC operational experience, platform technology, and extensive experience in G-class operating conditions. In Phase 1, the technologies and concepts necessary to achieve the program goals were identified for the gas turbine components and supporting technology areas and testing plans were developed to mitigate ide… more
Date: January 1, 2008
Creator: Fadok, Joesph
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Carbon dioxide capture and separation techniques for advanced power generation point sources

Description: The capture/separation step for carbon dioxide (CO2) from large-point sources is a critical one with respect to the technical feasibility and cost of the overall carbon sequestration scenario. For large-point sources, such as those found in power generation, the carbon dioxide capture techniques being investigated by the in-house research area of the National Energy Technology Laboratory possess the potential for improved efficiency and costs as compared to more conventional technologies. The i… more
Date: September 1, 2006
Creator: Pennline, Henry W.; Luebke, David R.; Morsi, Badie I.; Heintz, Yannick J.; Jones, Kenneth L. & Ilconich, Jeffery B.
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Advanced Coal Wind Hybrid: Economic Analysis

Description: Growing concern over climate change is prompting new thinking about the technologies used to generate electricity. In the future, it is possible that new government policies on greenhouse gas emissions may favor electric generation technology options that release zero or low levels of carbon emissions. The Western U.S. has abundant wind and coal resources. In a world with carbon constraints, the future of coal for new electrical generation is likely to depend on the development and successful a… more
Date: November 28, 2008
Creator: Phadke, Amol; Goldman, Charles; Larson, Doug; Carr, Tom; Rath, Larry; Balash, Peter et al.
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Conversion of Hydrogen Sulfide in Coal Gases to Liquid Elemental Sulfur with Monolithic Catalysts

Description: Removal of hydrogen sulfide (H{sub 2}S) from coal gasifier gas and sulfur recovery are key steps in the development of Department of Energy's (DOE's) advanced power plants that produce electric power and clean transportation fuels with coal and natural gas. These plants will require highly clean coal gas with H{sub 2}S below 1 ppmv and negligible amounts of trace contaminants such as hydrogen chloride, ammonia, alkali, heavy metals, and particulate. The conventional method of sulfur removal and… more
Date: September 30, 2007
Creator: Kwon, K. C.
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Commercialization Development of Oxygen Fired CFB for Greenhouse Gas Control

Description: Given that fossil fuel fired power plants are among the largest and most concentrated producers of CO{sub 2} emissions, recovery and sequestration of CO{sub 2} from the flue gas of such plants has been identified as one of the primary means for reducing anthropogenic (i.e., man-made) CO{sub 2} emissions. In 2001, ALSTOM Power Inc. (ALSTOM) began a two-phase program to investigate the feasibility of various carbon capture technologies. This program was sponsored under a Cooperative Agreement fro… more
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: Nsakala, Nsakala ya; Liljedahl, Gregory N. & Turek, David G.
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Power System Modeling of 20percent Wind-Generated Electricity by 2030

Description: The Wind Energy Deployment System model was used to estimate the costs and benefits associated with producing 20% of the nation's electricity from wind technology by 2030. This generation capacity expansion model selects from electricity generation technologies that include pulverized coal plants, combined cycle natural gas plants, combustion turbine natural gas plants, nuclear plants, and wind technology to meet projected demand in future years. Technology cost and performance projections, as … more
Date: June 9, 2008
Creator: Bolinger, Mark A.; Hand, Maureen; Blair, Nate; Wiser, Ryan; Hern, Tracy; Miller, Bart et al.
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A Joint Workshop on Promoting the Development and Deployment of IGCC/Co-Production/CCS Technologies in China and the United States. Workshop report

Description: With both China and the United States relying heavily on coal for electricity, senior government officials from both countries have urged immediate action to push forward technology that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired plants. They discussed possible actions at a high-level workshop in April 2009 at the Harvard Kennedy School jointly sponsored by the Belfer Center's Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group, China's Ministry of Science and Technology, and t… more
Date: June 3, 2009
Creator: Zhao, Lifeng; Ziao, Yunhan & Gallagher, Kelly Sims
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Assessment of coal gasification/hot gas cleanup based advanced gas turbine systems: Greenfield assessment

Description: Both the KRW fluidized-bed gasifier and the transport gasifier case studies were used for this assessment. The transport technology is a high-velocity circulating fluidized-bed reactor currently under development by The M.W. Kellogg Company. In the earlier assessment, seven design concepts or cases were identified; a process design was developed; major equipment items were identified; estimates of capital cost, operation and maintenance cost, and cost of electricity were developed; reliability … more
Date: December 1, 1991
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Advanced Coal-Fueled Gas Turbine Program

Description: The objective of the original Request for Proposal was to establish the technological bases necessary for the subsequent commercial development and deployment of advanced coal-fueled gas turbine power systems by the private sector. The offeror was to identify the specific application or applications, toward which his development efforts would be directed; define and substantiate the technical, economic, and environmental criteria for the selected application; and conduct such component design, … more
Date: February 1, 1989
Creator: Horner, M. W.; Ekstedt, E. E.; Gal, E.; Jackson, M. R.; Kimura, S. G.; Lavigne, R. G. et al.
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Wabash River Integrated Methanol and Power Production from Clean Coal Technologies (IMPPCCT)

Description: The Wabash River Integrated Methanol and Power Production from Clean Coal Technologies (IMPPCCT) project was established to evaluate integrated electrical power generation and methanol production through clean coal technologies. The project was under the leadership of ConocoPhillips Company (COP), after it acquired Gasification Engineering Corporation (GEC) and the E-Gas gasification technology from Global Energy Inc. in July 2003. The project has completed both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of developme… more
Date: September 30, 2007
Creator: Conocophillips
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FutureGen: Stepping-Stone to Sustainable Fossil-Fuel Power Generation

Description: This presentation will highlight the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen Initiative. The nearly $1 billion government-industry project is a stepping-stone toward future coal-fired power plants that will produce hydrogen and electricity with zero-emissions, including carbon dioxide. The 275-megawatt FutureGen plant will initiate operations around 2012 and employ advanced coal gasification technology integrated with combined cycle electricity generation, hydrogen production, and carbon capture … more
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: Zitney, S. E.
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System Study of Rich Catalytic/Lean burn (RCL) Catalytic Combustion for Natural Gas and Coal-Derived Syngas Combustion Turbines: Final Report

Description: Rich Catalytic/Lean burn (RCL{reg_sign}) technology has been successfully developed to provide improvement in Dry Low Emission gas turbine technology for coal derived syngas and natural gas delivering near zero NOx emissions, improved efficiency, extending component lifetime and the ability to have fuel flexibility. The present report shows substantial net cost saving using RCL{reg_sign} technology as compared to other technologies both for new and retrofit applications, thus eliminating the ne… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Etemad, Shahrokh; Smith, Lance & Burns, Kevin
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Hydrogen-or-Fossil-Combustion Nuclear Combined-Cycle Systems for Base- and Peak-Load Electricity Production

Description: A combined-cycle power plant is described that uses (1) heat from a high-temperature nuclear reactor to meet base-load electrical demands and (2) heat from the same high-temperature reactor and burning natural gas, jet fuel, or hydrogen to meet peak-load electrical demands. For base-load electricity production, fresh air is compressed; then flows through a heat exchanger, where it is heated to between 700 and 900 C by heat provided by a high-temperature nuclear reactor via an intermediate heat-… more
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Forsberg, Charles W & Conklin, Jim
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Fuel-Flexible Gasification-Combustion Technology for Production of H2 and Sequestration-Ready CO2

Description: In the near future, the nation will continue to rely on fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and chemicals. It is necessary to improve both the process efficiency and environmental impact of fossil fuel utilization including greenhouse gas management. GE Global Research (GEGR) investigated an innovative fuel-flexible Unmixed Fuel Processor (UFP) technology with potential to produce H{sub 2}, power, and sequestration-ready CO{sub 2} from coal and other solid fuels. The UFP technology of… more
Date: March 31, 2008
Creator: Kulkarni, Parag; Guan, Jie; Subia, Raul; Cui, Zhe; Manke, Jeff; Frydman, Arnaldo et al.
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Refractory for Black Liquor Gasifiers: Final Report

Description: The University of Missouri-Rolla identified materials that permit the safe, reliable and economical operation of combined cycle gasifiers by the pulp and paper industry. The primary emphasis of this project was to resolve the material problems encountered during the operation of low-pressure high-temperature (LPHT) and low-pressure low-temperature (LPLT) gasifiers while simultaneously understanding the materials barriers to the successful demonstration of high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) b… more
Date: December 1, 2005
Creator: Headrick, William L., Jr.; Rezaie, Alireza; Liang, Xiaoting; Karakus, Musa & Wei, Jun
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FutureGen: Pathway to Near-Zero Emissions and Sustainable Energy

Description: This presentation will highlight the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) FutureGen project − a $1 billion government-industry partnership to design, build, and operate a near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant. The lead organization for the FutureGen initiative is the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), a multi-purpose laboratory operated by the U.S. DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy. NETL has a mission to conduct R&D from fundamental science to technology demonstration for resolving th… more
Date: November 4, 2007
Creator: Zitney, S. E. & Sarkus, T. A
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Fuel-Flexible Gasification-Combustion Technology for Production of H2 and Sequestration-Ready CO2

Description: GE Global Research is developing an innovative energy technology for coal gasification with high efficiency and near-zero pollution. This Unmixed Fuel Processor (UFP) technology simultaneously converts coal, steam and air into three separate streams of hydrogen-rich gas, sequestration-ready CO{sub 2}, and high-temperature, high-pressure vitiated air to produce electricity in gas turbines. This is the draft final report for the first stage of the DOE-funded Vision 21 program. The UFP technology … more
Date: February 28, 2005
Creator: Rizeq, George; West, Janice; Subia, Raul; Frydman, Arnaldo; Kulkarni, Parag; Schwerman, Jennifer et al.
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Advanced coal-fueled gas turbine systems

Description: The combustion system discussed here incorporates a modular three- stage slagging combustor concept. Fuel-rich conditions inhibit NO{sub x} formation from fuel nitrogen in the first stage; also in the first stage, sulfur is captured with sorbent; coal ash and sulfated sorbent are removed from the combustion gases by inertial means in the second stage by the use of an impact separator and slagging cyclone separator in series. Final oxidation of the fuel-rich gases, and dilution to achieve the de… more
Date: September 1, 1991
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