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Low/medium Btu coal gasification assessment program for potential users in New Jersey [electronic resource] : executive summary

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Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1981.
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Pages: 21 : digital, PDF file
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United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
This preliminary study evaluation has manifested an overall technical and economic feasibility for producing a medium Btu quality gas (MBG) from coal at PSE and G's Sewaren Generating Station in New Jersey. The production of MBG for use as a fuel gas for on-site power plant boilers or for distribution to industrial customers appears to be economically attractive. The economic attractiveness of MBG is very dependent on the location of sufficient numbers of industrial customers near the gasification facilities and on high utilization of the gasification plant. The Sewaren Generating Station was identified as potentially the most suitable site for a gasification plant. The Texaco Coal Gasification Process (TCGP) was selected as the gasifier type due to a combination of efficiency and pilot plant experience. Further, it has the advantage of being a pressurized process, capable of supplying the gas without downstream compression which is required if the gas is to be transported to industrial consumers. The TCGP can handle the high sulfur eastern coals chosen as a feedstock. All equipment downstream of the gasifier is commercially proven. For maximum efficiency and flexibility, it would be desirable to consider the integration of the gasification process with a methanol synthesis plant, consuming up to 25% of the MBG produced. Such a combination scheme would allow storage of MBG when its demand is low and thereby increasing the gasifier capacity factor and minimizing its turndown requirements.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:doe/fe/20216-1
doe/fe/20216-1
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Published through SciTech Connect.
05/01/1981.
"doe/fe/20216-1"
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Burns and Roe Industrial Services Corp., Paramus, NJ (USA)
Funding Information
AC01-79RA20216
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