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Fuel-Flexible Gasification-Combustion Technology for Production of H2 and Sequestration-Ready CO2:
Annual Technical Progress Report 2002, October 1, 2001 – September 30, 2002

George Rizeq

General Electric Energy and Environmental Research Corporation

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Table of Contents

DISCLAIMER 2
ABSTRACT 3
LIST OF TABLES 5
LIST OF FIGURES 5
LIST OF ACRONYMS 6

1.0

INTRODUCTION 7
 

1.1

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES 7

1.2

AGC CONCEPT 8

1.3

PROJECT PLAN 8

2.0

PROGRAM PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT 9

3.0

LABORATORY-SCALE TESTING (TASK 1) 10
 

3.1

FIXED BED EXPERIMENTS 10

3.2

FLUIDIZED BED EXPERIMENTS 12

4.0

BENCH-SCALE TESTING (TASK 3) 14
 

4.1

COAL GASIFICATION AND CO2 ABSORPTION/RELEASE (R1/R2) TESTING 14

4.2

OXYGEN TRANSFER MATERIAL (R2/R3) PERFORMANCE 18

5.0

ENGINEERING AND MODELING STUDIES (TASK 4) 24
 

5.1

PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT 24

5.2

PROCESS MODELING 26

6.0

PILOT PLANT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING (TASK 5) 27
 

6.1

SYSTEM OPERATING CONDITIONS 28

6.2

REACTOR HEAT LOST AND MECHANICAL STRESS ANALYSIS 29

6.3

SOLIDS TRANSFER MECHANISM 31

6.4

SPECIFICATION OF OTHER KEY SUBSYSTEMS 33

6.5

PRELIMINARY P&ID 33

7.0

PILOT PLANT ASSEMBLY (TASK 6) 35
 

7.1

PILOT-SCALE SYSTEM EQUIPMENT FLOOR PLAN 35

8.0

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 35

9.0

FUTURE WORK 37

10.0

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 39