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Fuel-Flexible Gasification-Combustion Technology for Production of H2 and Sequestration-Ready CO2:
Quarterly Technical Progress Report No. 5 October 1, 2001 – December 31, 2001

George Rizeq

General Electric Energy and Environmental Research Corporation

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DISCLAIMER 2
ABSTRACT 3
LIST OF TABLES 5
LIST OF FIGURES 5
LIST OF ACRONYMS 5
INTRODUCTION 6
  PROGRAM OBJECTIVES 6
AGC CONCEPT 7
PROJECT PLAN 7
PROGRAM PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT 7
EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS 8
  LABORATORY-SCALE (TASK 1) ACTIVITIES 8
BENCH-SCALE TESTING (TASK 3) 9
ENGINEERING AND MODELING STUDIES (TASK 4) PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT 11
PILOT PLANT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING (TASK 5) 12
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 14
FUTURE WORK 15
APPENDIX A 24
 
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Main tasks of the AGC Program 7
Table 2 Comparison of features of AGC technology and IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) Technology 12
Table 3 Specification Limits of key design parameters 13
 
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Conceptual design of the AGC technology 16
Figure 2 Lab-scale experimental coal gasification results 16
Figure 3 Process and instrumentation diagram for the bench-scale experimental system 17
Figure 4 Pressure drop through the reactor bed as a function of fluidization flow rate: a comparison of experimental results with theoretical values 18
Figure 5 CO2 concentration in gasification product gas for tests conducted with inert bed and CAM (CO2-absorbing material) bed 19
Figure 6 CO concentration in gasification product gas for tests conducted with inert bed and CAM (CO2-absorbing material) bed 20
Figure 7 Product gas flow rate during gasification for tests conducted with inert bed and CAM (CO2-absorbing material) bed 21
Figure 8 CO2 measurements during coal gasification with a CAM (CO2-absorbing material) bed for three different test runs 22
Figure 9 AGC baseline case process heat and mass balance 23