Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project - Project Brief [PDF-300KB]
(Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion)
The Ohio Power Company, Brilliant, OH

PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS

• Final Reports
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project Final Report, Including Fourth Year of Operation
    [PDF-13.3MB] (Aug 1995)
• CCT Reports: Project Performance Summaries, Post-Project Assessments, & Topical Reports
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project: A DOE Assessment [PDF-978KB] (Aug 2001)
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project - Project Performance Summary [PDF-1.4 MB) (June 1999)
  • Tidd: The Nations First PFBC Combined-Cycle Demonstration, Topical Report No. 1 [PDF-909KB] (Mar 1990)
• Design Reports
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project: Public Final Design Report [PDF-3.5MB] (Oct 1992)
• Interim Reports
  • Tidd PFBC Hot Gas Clean Up Program Final Report [PDF-23.2MB] (Oct 1995)
  • PFBC Hot Gas Clean Up Test Program, Quarterly Report, April - June 1995 [PDF-372KB]
  • Analyses of Ashes from the Tidd PFBC Advanced Particulate Filter, Topical Report [PDF-1.3MB] (Aug 1995)
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project - First Three Years of Operation, Topical Report (Apr 1995)
    • Volume 1 [PDF-18.5MB]
    • Volume 2 [PDF-16.3MB]
  • Commercial Second-Generation PFBC Plant Transient Model; Task 15, Topical Report [PDF-11.9MB] (Apr 1995)
  • Conceptual Design and Optimization of a 1-1/2 Generation PFBC Plant; Task 14, Topical Report [PDF-6MB] (Dec 1994)
  • Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project Topical Report -- First Eighteen Months of Operation [PDF-4.9MB] (Mar 1994)
• Environmental Reports
  • A Study of Hazardous Air Pollutants at the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant (Sept 1994)
    • Volume I - Draft Report [PDF-4.8MB]
    • Volume II - Appendices [PDF-10.9MB]
• Comprehensive Report to Congress
  • Supplemental Comprehensive Report to Congress on the Clean Coal Technology Program: Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project [PDF-1.2MB] (Mar 1994)
  • Comprehensive Report to Congress on the Clean Coal Technology Program: Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project [PDF-1.6MB] (Feb 1987)

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• M. Marrocco (American Electric Power Service Corporation) "Tidd Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion Demonstration Plant Assessment," Fourth Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference: The Global Opportunity, Denver, Colorado, September 1995.
• R.R. Judkins, et al., (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), "Development of Ceramic Composite Hot-Gas Filters," ASME International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition: Land, Sea, and Air (June 1995).
• D.H. Smith, U. Grimm, and G. Haddad, "Composition and Chemistry of Particulates from Tidd Clean Coal Demonstration Plant Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor, Cyclone, and Filter Vessel" [PDF-490KB], 1995 International Ash Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, October 23-25, 1995
• S.A. Benson, T.A. Erickson, and D.W. Brekke, "Comparison of HAP's from Advanced and Conventional Power Systems: Tidd Versus Cardinal" [PDF-735KB] Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '95 Review Meeting. Morgantown, West Virginia, June 27-29, 1995.
• B. Roberts (Lincoln Electric Co.), "Monster Pressure Vessel Proves Low-Emission Power Plant Technology," Welding Journal 74(4): 65-67 (April 1995).
• M. Marrocco and D.A. Bauer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "American Electric Power Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combined Cycle Technology Status," Third Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 1994.
• D.A. Bauer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), et al., "Update on the Operation and Performance Testing of the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant," Electric Power Research Institute Conference: Fluidized-Bed Combustion for Power Generation, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1994.
• M.E. Zando and D.A. Bauer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Baseline Performance of a 200 MWe Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustor," Proceedings of the American Power Conference (Volume 56-Il), 56th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 1994.
• M.I. Mudd (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "The Economics of Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion Technology," Conference on Comparative Economics of Emerging Clean Coal Technologies III, Washington, DC, February 1994.
• S. Whitney and P. Wertzel (The Babcock & Wilcox Company), "Design Characteristics of Coal Plants for PFBC Repowering," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference and Exhibition for the Power Generating Industries (Book IV, Volume X), Dallas, Texas, November 1993.
• M. Marrocco (American Electric Power), "American Electric Power Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion Technology Status," Second Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference,  Atlanta, Georgia, September 1993.
• M.I. Mudd, D.R. Hafer, and M. Zando (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Test Results from the 70 MW Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant," Twelfth International Conference on Fluidized-Bed Combustion, May 1993.
• D.R. Hafer and D.A. Bauer (American Electric Power), "AEP's Program for Enhanced Environmental Performance of PFBC Plants," Proceedings of the American Power Conference, April 1993.
• M. Marrocco and D.R. Hafer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant Operation and Testing," Symposium on Energy and Environmental Management, March 1993.
• D.A. Bauer and H.K. Stogran (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Second Year of Operation of the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant," Proceedings: Coal-Energy and the Environment. Ninth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1992.
• D.R. Hafer, M.I. Mudd, D.A. Bauer, and H.K. Stogran (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "AEP's Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant: Start-Up and Operating Experience," Electric Power Research Institute Application of Fluidized-Bed Combustion for Power Generation Utility Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1992..
• M. Marrocco and D.R. Hafer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "American Electric Power Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion Technology Update," First Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1992.
• J.E. Hollback and D.A. Bauer (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Initial Operation of the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant," Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1991.
• M. Marrocco (American Electric Power Service Corporation), et al., "Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant Start-Up," Eleventh International Conference on Fluidized-Bed Combustion, April 1991.
• M.I. Mudd (American Electric Power Service Corporation), "Status of AEP's Tidd PFBC Demonstration Plant," International Conference on Fluidized-Bed Combustion: FBC-Technology for Today, San Francisco, California, April 1989.