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STATUS OF COAL PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994)
COMMERCIAL AND R&D PROJECTS (Continued)
CAMDEN CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT- Camden Clean Energy Partners Ltd. Partnership, made up of Duke Energy Corp.,
General Electric Co., and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (C-100)
A 484 megawatt advanced CGCC power plant is planned for Camden, NJ. Power from the plant will be sold to Public Service
Electric and Gas Co. through an anticipated power sales agreement.
The project will demonstrate the British Gas/Lurgi (BGL) fixed-bed oxygen-blown gasifier technology in which 3,700 tons per
day of Pittsburgh No. 8 high-sulfur coal from West Virginia is gasified to produce a clean gas that is combusted in advanced gas
turbines. Turbine exhaust will be used to produce steam to drive a steam turbine in a second cycle. These two combined cycles
are expected to make the CGCC plant 20 percent more efficient than a conventional coal plant, while reducing levels of SO ,
and particulates to meet the most stringent environmental standards.
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The CGCC component will use four BGL fixed-bed slagging gasifiers, two General Electric 7FA advanced combustion turbines
and a 2,000 ton per day air separation unit. The project will also include a demonstration of a 25 MW molten carbonate fuel
cell, which will be operated with a portion of the clean coal gases.
The project was selected under the United States Department of Energy Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Round 5. The
estimated total project cost is $780 million, of which DOE will provide 25 percent.
- CARBON COUNTY UNDERGROUND COAL GASIFICATION (L'CG^ PROJECT Carbon
of Williams Energy Ventures and Energy International Corporation) (C-105)
County UCG. Inc. (a joint venture
A two-year demonstration project is designed to determine the commercial feasibility of gas produced bv UCG. The project
will be located in a steeply-dipping seam of coal located about 8 miles west of Rawlins. Wyoming. This UCG technology can be
used to develop coal seams that cannot be mined using conventional mining techniques. Air quality and other permits were
obtained in 1994. Depending on the success of the demonstration project, commercial operations could be started as early as
1996.
Project Cost: Unknown
CHARFUEL PROJECT Coal Refining Corporation of American, a subsidiary of Carbon Fuels Corporation (C-110)
Coal Refining Corporation has completed the design phase and has purchased most of the equipment for an 18 ton per day In
tegrated Process Demonstration Unit (IPDU) which will integrate the Charfuel hydrocracker with commercially available
processes to optimize the operating conditions for commercial coal refineries. Coal Refining Corporation is seeking funds to
complete the 18 ton per day IPDU project.
The 18 ton per day IPDU involved demonstrating the patented Charfuel coal refining process. The first step is
"hvdrodisproportionation"
which is accomplished by short residence time flash volatilization. Resulting char may be mixed
back with process-derived liquid hydrocarbons to make a stable, compliance. high-BTU. pipelineable fiuidic fuel. This com
pliance fuel could be burned in a coal-fired or modified oil-fired burners. The char can also he used as a feedstock for in
tegrated combined cycle gasification (IGCC). as a feedstock for pressurized fluidized bed combustion, or as a source of fixed
carbon for direct iron ore reduction (DRI). Additional products manufactured during the refining process include ammonia
and/or urea, sulfur, methanol. MTBE. BTX. naphtha, and fuel oil.
The company's affiliate has completed a program which verified the design of the proprietary coal injector/mixer system. This
work, at a design scale of 150 tons per day, was co-funded by the Department of Energy and conducted at the Western
Research Institute in Laramie. Wyoming. The system operated successfully at over 240 tons per day, or more than 1.5 times
the design scale.
Carbon Fuels Corporation has signed a license agreement with Zia Metallurgical Processes. Inc. for a commercial Charfuel coal
refinery integrated with a Zia steel production facility using Zia's proprietary DRI process to be located in Puerto Rico. The
coal refinery will produce char, fuel gas and liquid hydrocarbons. The char and fuel gas will be used in the steel production
facility. Liquid hydrocarbon products will be sold locally. Zia has agreed to construct five additional Charfuel plants over the
next ten years under the license-
Carbon Fuels has also entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to complete the
IPDU and commence commercialization of the Charfuel process in China. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technolog
ies added the Charfuel project to the list of projects which are to be funded under the Memorandum of Understanding be
tween the U.S. Department of Energy and the Chinese government.
Additionally, the Charfuel hydrocracking process is included as one of the technologies to he evaluated and supported in accor
dance with Section 1305 of the Energy Policy Act.
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SYNTHETIC FUELS REPORT, JANUARY 1995