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BIOMASS-FUELED, SMALL-SCALE, INTEGRATED-GASIFIER, GAS-TURBINE POWER PLANT: PROGRESS REPORT ON THE PHASE 2 DEVELOPMENT
Citation:
Purvis*, C R. AND J. D. Craig. BIOMASS-FUELED, SMALL-SCALE, INTEGRATED-GASIFIER, GAS-TURBINE POWER PLANT: PROGRESS REPORT ON THE PHASE 2 DEVELOPMENT. Presented at Bioenergy 2000 Conference, Buffalo, NY, 10/17/2000.
Description:
The paper reports the latest efforts to complete development of Phase 2 of a three-phase effort to develop a family of small-scale (1 to 20 MWe) biomass-fueled power plants. The concept envisioned is an air-blown pressurized fluidized-bed gasifier followed by a dry hot gas cleanup system with the resulting clean hot gas injected into the combustion chamber a gas-turbine engine. A general overview of the process and performance of the system is presented. Phase 1 was the design, construction, and operation of the pressurized feed system, gasification system, and hot gas cleanup of a slipstream. Phase 2 is the design and construction of an upgraded gasification system based on Phase 1 results, including a full-flow hot gas cleanup filter based on the slipstream filter of Phase 1 (the system can provide pressurized hot clean gas for fueling a gas-turbine engine. Phase 3 is the modeification of a gas-turbine engine to operate on the fuel produced by the Phase 2 system., A small gas-turbine-generator package has been procured and will provide for economical fuel system and combustor modification, and subsequent testing. When the Phse 2 and 3 systems are complete and tested, they will be integrated to form a complete small-scale biomass power system which will undergo performance testing.