Gas Turbine Handbook : Principles and Practices

234 Gas Turbine Handbook: Principles and Practices
SPPCo expects to be granted a Nevada Utility Environmental Protection
Act (UEPA) permit in January, 1995.
Design and preliminary engineering of the plant is substantially
complete, and detailed engineering is approximately 40%
complete. Procurement and vendor engineering is well underway
(Figure 14-2. Piñon Pine Project Schedule).
Name '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '0
Permitting (Federal & State)
Design & Engineering
Purchase Equipment
Construction
Start-Up
DOE Demo & Operation
Figure 14-2. Piñon Pine Project Schedule.
Major Participants
SPPCo will own and operate the demonstration plant which
will provide power to the electric grid to meet its customer needs.
Foster Wheeler USA Corporation (FWUSA) will provide engineering
and construction management services. The M.W. Kellogg Company
(MWK) will provide engineering of the gasifier and hot gas cleanup
systems. The General Electric Company was awarded contracts for
both the gas turbine/generator and the steam turbine/generator for
the project following competitive solicitations.
PLANT CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE
Process Description
The Piñon Pine Power Project will demonstrate the performance
of a coal-based IGCC power plant. The power plant will include
a gasifier island, coupled to a combustion turbine and steam
turbine based power island. The gasifier island has an air-blown
ash-agglomerating KRW gasifier to produce low-Btu syngas. Coal
is supplied to the gasifier by a pneumatic coal feed system, fed by