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COAL GASIFICATION - WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION [PHASE 2 STAGE 1] (PRENFLO)

Objective

To operate a 48 Tons/day Prenflo plant on a long term basis to test the various components and to complete the development of the process.L%

The Prenflo process is an advanced coal gasification process, which allows high unit capacity, high efficiency, non-dependence on coal qualities and optimally low environmental impact.
It is particularly suited for conversion of coal to electrical power by means of integration with a combined gas/steam turbine power plant.
This project covers only the operation of a 48 Tons/day plant - known as phase 2 - for 24 months and consists of 3 stages :
1. the cold-commissioning
2. the trial run
3. the evaluation
Stage 1 started on 01. 01. 86. Stage 3 will be finished on 31. 12. 87.
The plant is located on the site of the Technology Center of the Saarbergwerke AG in Fuerstenhausen (Saarland, Germany) (see project LG/00018/83). The feedstock consists of pulverized coal fed pneumatically into a reactor where it reacts with oxygen and steam at 1,300-1,600 deg. C and is entirely converted in CO, H2 and some small amount of CO2. The ashes are eliminated through a water-bath below the reactor from which they are granulated and disposed of.
The crude synthesis gas is fed into an oven where it releases most of its heat to produce 50 bar, 500 deg. C steam partly used as process steam and partly fed to the nearby plant. The gas is then dedusted, washed, cooled and desulfurised and fed into the network.

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Krupp-Koppers GmbH
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Address
Altendorfer Straße 120
45143 Essen
Germany

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