Piñon Pine IGCC Power Project - Project Brief [PDF-313KB]
Sierra Pacific Power Company, Reno, NV

PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS

• Final Reports
  • Piñon Pine IGCC Project, Final Technical Report [PDF-14.1MB] (Jan 2001)
• Annual/Quarterly Technical Reports
  • Piñon Pine Power Project Annual Reports
    • August 1992 - December 1993 [PDF-2.4MB]
    • January - December 1994 [PDF-2.3MB]
    • January - December 1995 [PDF-3.1MB]
    • January - December 1996 [PDF-6.1MB]
• CCT Reports: Project Performance Summaries, Post-Project Assessments, & Topical Reports
  • Piñon Pine IGCC Power Project: A DOE Assessment [PDF-321KB] (Dec 2002)
  • Topical Report Number 8: The Piñon Pine Power Project [PDF-850KB] (Dec 1996)
• Design Reports
  • Tracy Power Station-Unit No. 4 Piñon Pine Power Project Public Design Report [PDF-4.7MB] (Dec 1994)
• Environmental Reports
  • Volume I: Report [PDF-19.5MB]
  • Volume II: Appendices [PDF-15.2MB]
• Comprehensive Report to Congress
  • Comprehensive Report to Congress on the Clean Coal Technology Program: Piñon Pine IGCC Power Project [PDF-335KB] (June 1992)

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• G.J. Bruck, T.E. Lippert, and W.F. Domeracki, "Advanced Hot Gas Filter for the Piñon Pine Coal Gasification Power Plant," Thirteenth Annual Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 1996.
• M.D. Freier, D.M. Jewell, and J.W. Motter, "Piñon Pine: An Advanced IGCC Demonstration," [PDF-576KB]  American Power Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 1996.
• I. Stambler, "Progress in IGCC and Advanced Cycles Outlined at EPRI Meeting," Gas Turbine World (January-February 1996).
• R. Swanekamp, "Startup of Large-Scale Projects Casts Spotlight on IGCC" Power Magazine (June 1996).
• W.M. Campbell, "Desulfurization of Hot Fuel Gas with Z-Sorb III Sorbent" Power Magazine (1995).
• S.E. Kuehn, "Combined Cycle Leads Efficiency Race" Power Engineering (1995).
• D.M. Todd, H.G. Stoll, and C.M. Veitch, "IGCC Proves Competitive with Conventional Coal Technology" Private Power Executive (July-August 1995).
• J.D. Burrow and J.W. Motter, "Integration of an Advanced Technology Gas Turbine in an Air Blown Gasifier" Western Energy Magazine (Spring 1995).
• T.E. Lippert, W.F. Domeracki, and V.L. Debski, "The Status of Westinghouse Hot Gas Particle Filters and Testing Results," Power-Gen Americas '95, Anaheim, California, December 1995.
• J.W. Motter and C. Kane, P.E., Esq., "Risk Management in Delivering Advanced Generation Technology," Power-Gen '95 Conference, Anaheim, California, December 1995.
• H. Simons and W.M. Campbell, "Status of Kellogg's Fluid Bed and Transport Gasification Processes," Institution of Chemical Engineers Conference, London, England, November 1995.
• J.W. Motter, "The Piñon Pine IGCC Project: Advanced Coal-Fired Power Generation Systems," EPRI Conference on New Power Generation Technology, San Francisco, California, October 1995.
• "Hot Gas Desulfurization Using Transport Reactors." Twelfth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 1995.
• J.W. Motter, "The Piñon Pine IGCC Project: Advanced Coal-Fired Power Generation Systems," Fourth Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference: The Global Opportunity, Denver, Colorado, September 1995.
• J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "The Piñon Pine IGCC Project: Advanced Coal-Fired Power Generation Systems," Fourth Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference: The Global Opportunity, Denver, Colorado, September 1995.
• G. Tatar, M. Gonzalez, and M. Fankhanel (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "An Update on the Piñon Pine IGCC Project," Proceedings of the 57th American Power Conference: Volume 57-I, pp. 0-64 (April 1995).
• R. Swanekamp, "Tracy Station Showcases DLN, IGCC Technologies," Power 139(3): 64, 66, 68 (March 1995).
• J.D. Burrow, et al., (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "Integration of an Advanced Technology Gas Turbine in an Air Blown Gasifier," Power Generation Conference, December 1994.
• W.M. Campbell, "Coal and Its Place in Indonesia's Future," Indonesian American Business Conference, Houston, Texas, December 1994.
• E.B. Higginbotham and J.W. Motter, "Piñon Pine Power Project Status," Thirteenth EPRI Conference on Gasification Power Plants, October 1994.
• J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), et al., "Piñon Pine Power Project--An Update," Third Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 1994.
• J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "The Piñon Pine IGCC Project Economic Issues," Conference on Comparative Economies of Emerging Clean Coal Technologies III, Washington, DC, February 1994.
• L.D. Gasper-Galvin, J.S. Mei, C.E. Everitt, and S. Katta, "Fixed Bed Testing of a Molybdenum-Promoted Zinc Titanate for Hot Gas Desulfurization," AIChE 1993 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1993.
• R.A. Battista, C.S. Cook, J.C. Corman, and T.E. Ekstrom. "Coal Gas Combustion Studies for IGCC Power Plants." EPRI Twelfth Conference on Coal Gasification. San Francisco, California, October 1993.
• J.W. Motter and E.B. Higginbotham, "Sierra Pacific Power Company's Piñon Pine Project," Twelfth EPRI Conference On Gasification Power Plant, San Francisco, California, October 1993.
• E.B. Higginbotham (Sierra Pacific Power Company), L.J. Lamarre (Foster Wheeler USA Corporation), and M. Glazer (The M.K. Kellogg Company), "Piñon Pine IGCC Project Status" Second Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1993.
• S. Katta and G. Henningsen, "LASH Oxidation, Waste Management," METC Conference, June 1993.
• J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), J.D. Pitcher (Foster Wheeler USA Corporation), and W.M. Campbell (The M.W. Kellogg Company), "The Piñon Pine IGCC Project/Design and Permitting Issues," Proceedings of the American Power Conference, April 1993.
• J.W. Motter, "Status of the Piñon Pine IGCC Project," Clean Coal Technology Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1992.
• D.N. Poole, J.W. Motter, W.M. Campbell, M. Fankhanal, and J.D. Pitcher, "Piñon Pine IGCC Project Overview and Update," Ninth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1992.
• M. Fankhanel, W. Campbell, and G. Henningsen (The M.W. Kellogg Company), "Piñon Pine Power Project Status Report," Eleventh EPRI Conference on Gasification Power Plants, San Francisco, California, October 1992.
• J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "Status of the Piñon Pine IGCC Project," First Annual Clean Coal Technology Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1992.
• T.E. Lippert, R.A. Newby, M.A. Alvin, D.M. Bachovchin, G.J. Bruck, and E.E. Smeltzer, "Development of Hot Gas Cleaning Systems for Advanced, Coal Based Gas Turbine Cycles," Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition, Cologne, Germany, June 1992.
• J.D. Pitcher (Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation) and J.W. Motter (Sierra Pacific Power Company), "The Piñon Pine Power Project," American Power Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 1992.
• P. McAllester, "Piñon Pine Set to Demonstrate IGCC" Modern Power Systems 11:19-23 (December 1991).
• A.M. Robin, L.A. Davis, J.S. Kassman, W.L. Lafferty, T.F. Leininger, J.S. Stevenson, P.P, Yang, and Chi-Ming Wu, "Integration and Testing of Hot Desulfurization and Entrained Flow Gasification for Power Generation Systems" (December 1991).
• R.A. Bajura and H.A. Webb, "Advanced Energy Systems, The Marriage of Gas Turbines and Coal" Mechanical Engineering (September 1991).
• D.T. GaIlaspy, R.B. Hinshaw, J.D. Maxwell, T.E. Pinkston, and R.E. Sears, "Cost and Performance of Air-Blown Gasification-Based Power Plant with Hot Gas Cleanup" (1990).
• T.E.Lippert, M.A. Alvin, D.M. Bachovchin, G.B. Haidipur, R.A. Newby, and E.E. Smeltzer, "Development and Commercialization of Hot Gas Filtration Systems" (1990).
• I.N. Banchik and S.K. Jam, "A Comparison of Air and Oxygen Blown KRW Gasifiers for an IGCC Facility," American Institute of Chemical Engineers, San Francisco, California, November 1989.