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Catalytic Combustion Enabling Technologies Development Program for Industrial Gas Turbine Systems: Final Report - January 2002

Shahrokh Etemad
 William C. Pfefferle
Lance Smith
 Hasan Karim
Marco Castaldi
Sam Boorse
Maxim Lyubovsky

Precision Combustion, Inc.

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Table of Contents

1

SUMMARY 1
2 MAJOR PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1
3 STATEMENT OF WORK 1
4 BACKGROUND - MOTIVATION AND RCL DEVELOPMENT 2
 

4.1

ROLE OF CATALYSIS IN LOW-EMISSIONS COMBUSTION 2

4.2

CHALLENGES TO CATALYTIC COMBUSTION 2

4.3

RCL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANTAGES 3
5 WORK PERFORMED AND RESULTS ACHIEVED 4
 

5.1

CATALYST DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING 5

5.2

1000-HOUR CATALYST DURABILITY TESTING 8

5.3

FULL-SCALE, HIGH-PRESSURE RCL COMBUSTION TESTS 9
 

5.3.1

ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE FULL-SCALE RCL TEST RESULTS 10

5.3.2

HIGH-PRESSURE FULL-SCALE RCL TEST RESULTS 14
6 CONCLUSIONS/NEXT STEPS 20
7 REFERENCES 20
8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 21