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Cool-Water Coal-Gasification Program.  First Annual Progress Report.
Project 1459 - Interim Report 1982.

Bechtel Power Corp.
General Electric Company

Southern California Edison Co.
Texaco, Inc.

In this pdf format, this document has 164 pages and is 5.52 MB.

Table of Contents

 

1

Introduction

1-1

2

Background

2-1

3

Program organization and management structure

3-1

Program Organization

3-1

Program Management Structure

3-3

 

Board of Control

3-4

Management Committee

3-5

The program Manager and the Program Office

3-7

Participant Responsibilities

3-7

4

General project description

4-1

Phase I – Preliminary Engineering

4-3

Preliminary Design Study

4-3

Coal gasification pilot plant tests

4-3

Permitting and Regulatory activities

4-4

Soliciting of participants

4-4

Phase II – Final Engineering

4-5

Phase III – Final Engineering

4-5

Phase IV – Testing and Operation

4-8

Phase V – Program Completion

4-11

5

Process and plant description

5-1

General

5-1

Existing site facilities

5-14

GCC Plant Sections

5-14

 

Coal Receiving, Storage and Handling

5-14

Coal grinding and slurring

5-19

Coal Gasification

5-23

Oxygen Plant

5-28

Gasification Process Effluent water treatment

5-28

Ash and slag handling

5-33

Sulfur removal (Selexol)

5-33

Sulfur Recovery

5-34

Power Generation

5-41

Steam, Condensate and boiler feedwater system

5-44

Plant Electrical Systems

5-46

Other Supporting Systems

5-52

 

Flare system

5-52

Cooling and Make-up water systems

5-52

Plant Air

5-55

Auxiliaries

5-56

Fire Protection

5-58

Pollution control facilities

5-58

Buildings

5-60

System design considerations

5-61

 

Plant configuration and design requirements

5-62

Integrated Plant Control

5-66

 

Plant Load/Pressure control

5-66

Operation Guidance

5-69

Plant protective coordination

5-73

Control Analysis

5-74

Power System Requirements

5-74

 

Loss of generation-System islanding – emergency conditions

5-75

Load Following Capability

5-76

Load Turndown

5-76

Load Rejection Performance

5-77

Data Acquisition System

5-77

6

Plant Performance Projections

6-1

7

Cost Estimate and Funding

7-1

 

Basis and Assumptions

7-1

Program Funding Plan

7-1

Source of Funds

7-3

8

Progress report and schedules

8-1

Pilot plant tests

8-1

 

Montebello

8-1

Oberhausen

8-1

Engineering

8-2

Procurement

8-9

Construction

8-9

Operations Planning

8-11

Milestone Schedule

8-12

9

Regular Tory Requirements

9-1

Overview of Regulatory review process

9-1

Summary of California Energy Commission Permit Process

9-1

Summary of the California Public Utilities Commission Process

9-3

Summary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit Process Environmental Permit Conditions and Monitoring

9-5

10

Test and Demonstration Plans

10-1

General

10-1

Test Plan Outline

10-2

Planned Tests and Evaluations

10-2

 

System (Steady State)

10-2

Dynamic Tests

10-5

Materials and Equipment Tests

10-6

Environmental Tests

10-8

11

References

11-1