Key Publications

Clean Coal Technology Reports

General

• Environmental Benefits of Clean Coal Technology [1.2MB PDF] - April 2001
  The reductions in airborne sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate pollutants likely to result from emerging clean coal technologies. 
• Clean Coal Technology - The Investment Pays Off [3.7MB PDF] - November 1999
  A summary of the benefits that have resulted from the joint government-industry investment in advanced coal technologies. 

• Software Systems in Clean Coal Demonstration Projects -- December 2001
  This report describes computer software systems used to optimize coal utilization technologies.

Strategic Planning

• Clean Coal Technology Roadmap - January 2004
  The consensus of the Department of Energy, the Coal Utilization Research Council, and the Electric Power Research Insitute on future goals and directions for clean coal technology development.

Project-Specific Topical Reports

Sulfur Dioxide Control Technologies

• Topical Report #12: Advanced Technologies for the Control of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers -- June 1999
  A discussion of three CCT projects that demonstrate innovative wet Flue Gas Desulfurization technologies to remove greater than 90% SO 2 . (PDF file size: 1.6 mB)
• Topical Report #4: SO 2 Removal using Gas Suspension Absorption Technology - - April 1995
  A plant near Paducah, Kentucky, demonstrates Gas Suspension Absorption, an innovative semi-dry flue gas desulfurization technology based on lime sorbent. (PDF file size: 680 kB)

NOx Control Technologies

• Topical Report #14: Reburning Technologies for the Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers -- May 1999
  A discussion of three CCT projects that demonstrate the reburning technologies on existing coal-fired utility boilers to reduce emissions of NOx. (PDF file size: 1.4 mB)
• Topical Report #9: Selective Catalytic Reduction - - July 1997
  Control of NOx emissions at Southern Company Services/Gulf Power Co. Plant Crist, near Pensacola, FL. (PDF file size: 1.7 MB)
• Topical Report #5: Reducing Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides via Low-NOx Burner Technologies - - September 1996
  Four CCT Program NO x reduction projects involving the use of LNBs, either alone or in combination with other technologies. (PDF file size: 825 kB

Combined SO2/NOx Technologies

• Topical Report #13: Technologies for the Combined Control of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides Emissions from Coal-Fired Boilers -- May 1999
  This report discusses three completed CCT projects involving combined SO 2 and NO x removal processes. (PDF file size: 500 kB)
• Topical Report #3: Reduction of NOx and SO2 using Gas Reburning, Sorbent Injection and Integrated Technologies - - September 1993
  Two demonstration projects are discussed in this report, each involving the use of gas reburning in conjunction with a second type of emission control technology. (PDF file size: 1.0 MB)
• Topical Report #2: Coolside and LIMB: Sorbent Injection Demonstrations Nearing Completion -- September 1990
  The first full-scale, commercial demonstration of two emerging sorbent injection technologies for controlling sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. (PDF file size: 3.2 MB)

Advanced Electric Power Generation

• Topical Report #22: The JEA Large-Scale CFB Combustion Demonstration Project - - March 2003
  The JEA CFB is testing inexpensive fuels like high-sulfur coal and coal fuel blends at a scale  larger than previously tested. Power production goals on coal and strict emission limits have been achieved.
• Topical Report #1: Tidd: The Nation's First PFBC Combined-cycle Demonstration - - March 1990
  Tidd, an electric generating station in Brilliant, Ohio, was the nation's first pressurized fluidized-bed combustor (PFBC) to operate in a true combined cycle mode. (PDF file size: 909 kB)
• Topical Report #20: The Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project - An Update -- September 2000
  In this project, coal is gasified in an oxygen-blown, entrained-flow gasifier with continuous slag removal and a dry particulate removal system.
• Topical Report #19: Tampa Electric Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Project - An Update -- July 2000
  The Texaco coal gasification process is used to fuel a gas turbine generator, whose exhaust is integrated with a heat recovery steam generator and a steam turbine generator.
• Topical Report #8: The Pinon Pine Power Project - - December 1996
  Electric power generation technology that combines modern coal gasification with gas turbine and steam power generation technologies at plant near Reno, Nevada. (PDF file size: 850 kB)
• Topical Report #7: The Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project - - November 1996
  A demonstration of the integration of a Destec gasification process with a gas turbine generator, a heat recovery steam generator, and the refurbished Unit 1 steam generator of the Wabash River Station. (PDF file size: 605 kB)
• Topical Report #6: The Tampa Electric Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Project - - October 1996
  Power generation technology that combines modern coal gasification with gas turbine and steam power generation technologies, located near Tampa, Florida. (PDF file size: 660 kB)

Coal Processing for Clean Fuels

• Topical Report #21: Coproduction of Power, Fuels and Chemicals - - September 2001
  A description of the production of synthesis gas (syngas) from coal, the production of electricity from combusting a portion of the syngas and conversion of the remaining syngas to high-value fuels and chemicals. (PDF file size: 1.1 mB)
• Topical Report #11: Commercial-Scale Demonstration of the Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH™) Process - - April 1999
  The production of methanol from coal-derived synthesis gas using the Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH™) Process will add significant flexibility and dispatch benefits to IGCC electric power plants. (PDF file size: 1.1 mB)
• Topical Report #10: Upgrading of Low-Rank Coals - - August 1997
  Two processes to upgrade low-rank coals: the ENCOAL Liquids-from-Coal® process, and Rosebud Syncoal Partnership's Advanced Coal Conversion Process (PDF file size: 786 kB)

Industrial Applications

• Topical Report #15: Blast Furnace Granular Coal Injection System Demonstration Project -- November 1999
  A commercial demonstration of Blast Furnace Granular Coal Injection technology in which coal is injected directly into an iron-making blast furnace, reducing the need for coke and natural gas. (PDF file size: 944 kB)