Return to DOE Reports Table of Contents - F Return to TVA Coal-Gasification Commercial Demonstration Plant Table of Contents TVA Coal-Gasification Commercial Demonstration Plant Project. Volume 2. Basis of Study Assessments and Process Selection. Final Report - November 1, 1980. Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation Table of Contents Basis of Study, Assessments and Process Selections Table of Contents 3 Section 1. Introduction 4 2. Basis of Study 5 2.1 Overview 5 2.1.1 Design Features 6 2.1.2 Coal-Handling Facilities 7 2.1.3 Buildings and Other Support Structures 7 2.1.4 Coal-Handling Facilities 7 2.1.5 Other Support Facilities 8 2.2 Tennessee Valley Authority – Design Criteria for Conceptual Designs and Assessments of TVA’s Coal Gasification Demonstration Plant – March 1980. 10 Foreword i Summary iv Section 1 Plant Design Considerations 15 1.1 Design Features 1.2 Coal Receiving and Handling Facilities 1.3 Building and Other Support Structures 1.4 Codes, Standards, and other Design Considerations 2 Characteristics of Raw Materials and Specifications for Plant Outputs 27 2-1 Coal Characteristics 2.2 Product Gas Specifications 2.3 Byproducts Specifications 2.4 Byproducts Disposition 3 Site Information 34 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Annual Extreme and Average site conditions 3.3 Monthly average site conditions 3.4 Percent occurrence of wind speed classes 3.5 Percent Occurrence of wind direction 3.6 River water analysis 4 Environmental Control Guidelines 38 4.1 Air Emissions 4.2 Liquid Effluents 4.3 Solids and Liquids Impoundment 5 Assumptions for Economic Assessments 39 5.1 Module Life 5.2 Module Service Factor 5.3 Capital and operating cost estimates 5.4 Financing 5.5 Economic evaluation rate 5.6 General and administrative expenses 5.7 Schedule of Cash Flow by Year 5.8 Product Gas Cost 5.9 Coal Cost 5.10 Limestone Cost 5.11 Coke Cost 5.12 Byproduct Credit 5.13 Excess Electricity Sales 5.14 Coal Fines Sales 5.15 Land Cost 5.16 Clearing and Grubbing Cost 5.17 Excavation Cost 5.18 Fill Cost 5.19 Electric Power Cost 5.20 Construction Labor 5.21 Operating Labor 5.22 Maintenance Labor 5.23 Escalation Rates 5.24 Sensitivity Analysis 5.25 Byproduct values for Sensitivity Analysis 2.3 Foster Wheeler Supplement 52 3.0 Assessments and Process Selections 66 3.1 Gas Cleanup 66 3.2 Oxygen Purity 135 3.3 Coal Washing 145 3.4 Sulfur Recovery 164 3.5 Equipment Drives 192 3.6 Plant Reliability, Spares and Gas Storage 200 3.7 Gas Delivery Pressure 219 3.8 Effects of Scale 226 3.9 Load Changes 239 |