Industry publication, December 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

1 cleanup system and gas turbine. it. These plants—such as the 180-Mw ! But a long-delayed fourth gasification Motiva Enterprises’ Delaware City, Del.,

It "■ i project, the 400-Mw Kentucky Pioneer Energy Project in Clark County, may be moving forward. It will not be based strict­ refinery project, which started up in April 2000, and the 35-Mw El Dorado plant, which was developed in 1997 by ly on coal, but on a low-cost feedstock that Texaco Alternative Energy Inc., White blends coal and municipal solid waste. It Plains, N.Y. (now ChevronTexaco World- is set to operate in 2003. wide Power & Gasification, Houston)— Low-cost feedstock is the key to other fire “bottom-of-the-barrel” fuels from re- gasification projects, which have been finery wastes. □ developed on their own economic mer- By Robert Swan^mp

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OEUVBiy Low-sulfur coal Is choice fuel.

and frequently to exploit changes in fuel I markets. In a CFB boUer, the fuel rides on a bed of sand and is fluidized from below by a continuous jet of combustion air. 'The result is excellent fuel-air mixing and nearly ideal combustion. Perhaps the highest-profile CFB project is located at Jacksonville Electric Author­ ity’s Northside station in Florida. The Northside project is one of the last of the Clean Coal Technology projects, with the U.S. Dept, of Energy sharing the cost of retrofitting atmospheric CFB boilers into Northside Units 1 and 2. After the CFB retrofit is complete, the plant will fire pet­ S’ .1 coke, coal or a combination of both. IGNITING? But coal’s long-term future may lie in gasification—an endothermic process in Get On-Line Fast which a solid fuel is thermochemically converted into a low- or medium-Btu gas. The resulting “syngas” can be used like natural gas to fuel a wide range of clean with E&E The right environmental permitting strategy can mean the difference between powerplant technologies, such as boilers, spinning assets and a multi-million dollar write-off. With today’s potential for gas turbines, spark-ignited reciprocating opposition, you need an environmental consulting firm that specializes in high engines, fuel cells and Stirling engines. quality strategic environmental permitting and compliance solutions. High-profile U.S. gasification projects E & E’s knowledge-based network methodology can provide the strategic are the three utility projects co-funded by approaches, regulatory agency relationships and ecologically sound solutions DOE’s Clean Coal Technology program; that will get you the environmental permits you need, ahead of schedule, and Wabash River, Polk, and Pinon Pine. with the most operational flexibility. From site selection and planning, through Since start-up in the late 1990s, Wabash construction, startup and long-term compliance, E & E is your best choice. River and Polk have made progress in For your copy of “Be the First On-Line’’ and detailed information about E & E’s professional services for electric power generation, transmission and distribution overcoming technical problems with gasi­ that can keep you ahead of the competition, contact David Tomlinson at: fication, and both facilities continue to operate—though with marginal financial results. But being one of the only air­ blown, rather than oxygen-blown, gasifi­ ecology and environment, inc. cation projects in the world appears to have doomed the Pinon Pine project INTERNATIONAL SPECIALISTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT near Reno, Nev. It was officially terminat­ TEL: 1-206-624-9537 • FAX: 1-206-621-9832 ed Jan. 1, 2001, without achieving inte­ [email protected] • www.ene.com grated operation of the gasifier, hot-gas Offices throughout the United States and around the world. 47.POWERPLANT CONSTRUCTION

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