Open AccessIntegrated low emissions cleanup system for coal fueled turbines Phase III bench-scale testing and evaluation
Author(s) -
R.A. Newby,
Alvin Alvin,
D.M. Bachovchin
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/174673
Subject(s) - coal , waste management , integrated gasification combined cycle , environmental science , combustion , clean coal , engineering , turbine , process engineering , electricity generation , mechanical engineering , chemistry , power (physics) , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
The United States Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Research Center (DOE/METC), is sponsoring the development of coal-fired turbine technologies such as Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion (PFBC), coal Gasification Combined Cycles (GCC), and Direct Coal-Fired Turbines (DCFT). A major technical development challenge remaining for coal-fired turbine systems is high-temperature gas cleaning to meet environmental emissions standards, as well as to ensure acceptable turbine life. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Science & Technology Center, has evaluated an Integrated Low Emissions Cleanup (ILEC) concept that has been configured to meet this technical challenge. This ceramic hot gas filter (HGF), ILEC concept controls particulate emissions, while simultaneously contributing to the control of sulfur and alkali vapor contaminants in high-temperature, high-pressure, fuel gases or combustion gases. This document reports on the results of Phase III of the ILEC evaluation program, the final phase of the program. In Phase III, a bench-scale ILEC facility has been tested to (1) confirm the feasibility of the ILEC concept, and (2) to resolve some major filter cake behavior issues identified in PFBC, HGF applications