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STATUS OF COAL PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994)
COMMERCIAL AND R&D PROJECTS (Continued)
- ENCOAL LFC DEMONSTRATION PLANT ENCOAL
Corporation, United States Department of Energy (C-221)
ENCOAL Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Zeigler Coal Holding Company of Fairview Heights. Illinois, received funding
from the Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology Round 3 Program for a 1,000 ton per day mild gasification plant at the
Buckskin Mine in Northeastern Wyoming. The government funded 50 percent of the original $72.6 million total cost. The
demonstration plant utilizes the LFC technology developed by SGI International.
The plant is designed to be operated as a small commercial facility and produce sufficient quantities of process derived fuel and
coal derived liquids to conduct full scale test burns of the products in industrial and utility boilers. Feed coal for the plant js pur
chased from the Buckskin Mine which is owned and operated by Triton Coal Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of SMC Mining
Company, also a Zeigler subsidiary"). Other United States coals may be shipped to the demonstration plant from time to time for
test processing, since the process appears to work well on lignites and some Eastern bituminous coals.
A Permit to Construct was received from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality
Division for the
demonstration plant. It was approved on the basis of the use of best available technology for the control of SO , NO , CO,
hydrocarbons and particulates. The plant is designed to have no solid or liquid wastes and source water requirements are very
small.
Ground was broken at the Buckskin mine site for the commercial process demonstration unit in late 1990. Construction was com
pleted by mid-1992. The plant, built to process 1,000 tons of coal per day and produce 150,000 barrels of liquids per year plus
180,000 tons of upgraded solid fuel, completed the first 24 hour integrated test run in June 1992. During this run it operated at
about 70 percent of its capacity and made specification solid and liquid fuels. Following this initial run, the plant was operated in a
test mode through June 1993. completing 15 runs of increasing duration.
The plant was closed down for a period in 1993 for the completion of plant improvements and the installation of additional equip
ment. In January 1994. the new equipment was commissioned and the operations and testing programs resumed. These programs
culminated in a 68 day continuous run in April through June 1994. The plant was then declared operational, although it is now
limited to 50 percent of its design capacity due to the capacity of the new equipment.
Since that time the plant has been operating in a production mode. More than 4.200 hours of operation were logged in 1994.
Seven unit trains, containing up to 90 percent PDF, the solid fuel, have been shipped to utilities in Hugo. Oklahoma and Mus-
cateen. Iowa. Both customers were very satisfied with their test burns. Nearly 1,000.000 gallons of CDL. the liquid product, have
been shipeed to various industrial customers. Some blending problems have surfaced, but the test burns were largely successful.
ENCOAL received approval from the DOE for a two year extension of the operating phase of the project in October 1994. The
$18,100.000 extension, shared equally by ENCOAL and the government, provides funds for the completion of the test bum
program, processing of alternate coals, development of cost and design data for commercial application of the technology and
achieving full capacity operation.
A contract is in place with Wisconsin Power and Light for delivery of 30.000 tons of high-BTU. low-sulfur PDF for test burns at its
coal-fired powerplants. Texpar Energy Inc. has agreed to buy up to 135.000 barrels of the CDL industrial fuel each year-
Total Project Cost: $90.7 million
- FIFE IGCC POWER STATION Fife
Energy Ltd. (C-224)
Fife Energy Ltd., a Scottish power company, is developing the United Kingdom's first integrated gasification combined cycle power
station in Fife, Scotland. The IGCC to be employed at the facility is based on British Gas/Lurgi's slagging gasification technology,
which converts up to 94 percent of the coal input into clean syngas. The IGCC will produce less than 10 percent of the U.S. stan
dard for emissions in new power sources, said a Fife spokesperson.
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