FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED POWER GENERATION Księgarnia

Subject: CO2 Emissions ; Coal ; Energy Efficiency ; OECD Countries
To meet future energy demand growth and replace older or inefficient units, a large number of fossil fuel-fired plants will be required to be built worldwide in the next decade. Yet CO2 emissions from fossil-fired power generation are a major contributor to climate change. As a result, new plants must be designed and operated at highest efficiency both to reduce CO2 emissions and to facilitate deployment of CO2 capture and storage in the future.

The series of case studies in this report, which respond to a request to the IEA from the G8 Summit in July 2005, were conducted to illustrate what efficiency is achieved now in modern plants in different parts of the world using different grades of fossil fuels. The plants were selected from different geographical areas, because local factors influence attainable efficiency. The case studies include pulverized coal combustion (PCC) with both subcritical and supercritical (very high pressure and temperature) steam turbine cycles, a review of current and future applications of coal-fuelled integrated gasification combined cycle plants (IGCC), and a case study of a natural gas fired combined cycle plant to facilitate comparisons.

The results of these analyses show that the technologies for high efficiency (low CO2 emission) and very low conventional pollutant emissions (particulates, Sox, Nox) from fossil fuel-fired power generation are available now through PCC, IGCC or NGCC at commercially acceptable cost.

This report contains comprehensive technical and indicative cost information for modern fossil fuel-fired plants that was previously unavailable. It serves as a valuable sourcebook for policy makers and technical decision makers contemplating decisions to build new fossil fuel-fired power generation plants.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 11

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 25

Chapter 2 DESIGNING FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY 33

Chapter 3 CASE STUDIES AND IGCC TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 37

COAL-FIRED PLANT 1 – Northern Europe Sea water cooled ultra-supercritical plant Nordjyllandsvarket 3, Denmark 39

COAL-FIRED PLANT 2 – Northern Europe Lignite-fired, inland ultra-supercritical PCC plant Niederaussem K, Germany 50

COAL-FIRED PLANT 3 – North America Sub-bituminous coal-fired, inland supercritical plant Genesee 3, Canada 63

COAL-FIRED PLANT 4 – Asia Bituminous coal-fired, coastal ultra-supercritical plant Isogo New Unit 1, Japan 73

COAL-FIRED PLANT 5 – Asia Bituminous coal-fired, coastal supercritical PCC plant Younghung Thermal Power Plant, Republic of Korea 83

COAL-FIRED PLANT 6 – Asia Clean coal-fired, inland supercritical PCC plant Wangqu 1 and 2, China 90

COAL-FIRED PLANT 7 – Asia High ash bituminous coal-fired, inland PCC plant Suratgarh, India 100

COAL-FIRED PLANT 8 – Africa High ash bituminous coal-fired PCC plant with dry and wet cooling Majuba, South Africa 110

NATURAL GAS-FIRED PLANT – Europe Enfield, United Kingdom 121

IGCC TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 129

Chapter 4 REVIEW OF CASE STUDIES AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 141

Introduction 141

Comparison of Performance and Costs 143

Future Developments 159

General Conclusions 160

Appendix A DATA ENQUIRY QUESTIONNAIRE 163

Appendix B ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 169

176 pages

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