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Coal Gasification
Coal Gasification
Coal Gasification
Type Btu/SCF
Producer Gas 90-120
Water Gas 341
Low-Btu 150
Intermediate-Btu 260-300
SNG 950
Methane 1054
Probable Uses….
• Low-Btu gas
– Local electrical power generation
– Cannot be used for home or commercial
heating
• Intermediate-Btu gas
– Electrical power generation
– Feed stock for chemicals
– Town gas
• High-Btu gas…. Same as natural gas
Selection of a Gasifier
• Type of bed
• Operating pressure
• Slagging, non-slagging
Lurgi (fixed bed, high P, non-slagging)
Koppers-Totzek (entrained bed, low P,
slagging)
Wellman-Galusha (fixed, low P, non-slagging)
Winkler (fluidized, low P, non-slagging)
CO2
OXYGEN
OILY PIPELINE GAS
N2 GAS 290 MMSCFD
STEAM LIQUOR @ 950 Btu/Scf
PHENOLS
Figure 7-6. Pipeline gas from coal via Lurgi pressure gasification.
Figure 7-11. The Texaco gasifier (also Shell, Eastman)
System for In-Situ Gasification
of Coal
Inject air Produce
and steam low-Btu
gas
Chemical reactions
From Wiser, 2000
Financial Dilemma
• Synthetic natural gas cost
- >$10.00/106 Btu
• Investment
- 75 x 1012 Btu/year plant, 30 year life
- $8 billion
• Benchmark is cost of oil and gas energy sources
- Need a floor on the price of energy over a
long time frame