IGCC demonstration plant for peat

✍ Scribed by Martti Äijälä; Erkki Huuskonen

• Book ID: 103982302
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 415 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-8524
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-8524(93)90062-g

✦ Synopsis

Gasification combined cycle technology (1GC() for power production using low-rank fuels is under development in bTnland. In this study, the possibilities to demon,strate the air blown gasification technology in Finland art" studied. The work includes different green-Jield and retrofit applications using peat as fuel. The processes have been planned and calculated using three different gas turbines and different type of fuel dryer inte-,gration to the process.

The results show' that the demonstration of the new technology is expensive and needs extensive support to the investment. The complete integration of the fuel dryer, ~'here the dryer operates at process pressure, turns out to he the most profitable case compared with other dr)'ing applications. The retrofit plant should be pre-[~rred as demonstration plant because it decreases the needJi,financial support, and the risks are also smaller.