|
Return to DOE Report Table of Contents
Evaluation of Coal Conversion Processes to Provide Clean
Fuels. Part I. - 1974
Katz, Donald L.
Briggs, Dale E.
Lady, Edward R.
Powers, John E.
Tek,
M. Rasin
Williams,
Brymer
Lobo, Walter E.
Electric Power Research Institute
In this pdf format, this document has
79 pages and is 3.17MB.
Table of Contents
| Title Page |
| Executive Summary |
ii |
| Table of Contents |
vii |
| List of Tables and Figures |
xi |
| Foreword |
xii |
| Acknowledgements |
xv |
| |
| Part 1 - Evaluation of Coal Utilization Processes
for Clean Fuels |
| |
Introduction |
1 |
| Conduct of the Project |
3 |
| Coal Conversion Processes |
8 |
| Bases for Comparison of Processes for Clean Fuels |
15 |
| Scale-up and Time to Commercial Operation |
16 |
| Complexity, Reliability and Safety |
17 |
| Adaptability to Utility Use |
19 |
| Turn-down |
21 |
| Thermodynamic Efficiency |
23 |
| Environmental Considerations |
24 |
| Economic Evaluation |
25 |
| Judgement |
29 |
| Comparison to Stack Gas Cleaning |
29 |
| General Observations |
31 |
| Institution Restraints |
31 |
| Common Interest with Gas and Oil Industries |
31 |
| Need for National Priorities and Allocations |
33 |
| University and Institutional Support |
33 |
| Attention to Coal Mining |
35 |
| Consideration of Tall Stacks |
35 |
| Evaluation of Various Routes to Clean Fuels and
Recommendations |
37 |
| Fluidized Bed Boilers |
37 |
| Beneficiation |
39 |
| Pyrolysis |
41 |
| Coal Gasification |
42 |
| Coal Dissolution and Liquefaction |
46 |
| Insitu Combustion |
49 |
| Selected Bibliography - Coal Conversion Processes |
50 |
| News Release |
58 |
| |
| Parts II and II are under separate cover |
|
