Doe's high performance power systems program: development of advanced coal-fired combined-cycle systems

摘要

Coal currently provides more than one third of the world's electricity and more than one half of the U.S.'s electricity. However, for coal to be the fuel of choice in the future, highly effcient, environmentally acceptable, and economically competitive, coal-fired power plants are needed. The U.S.Department of Energy, Federal Energy Technology Center, under its High Performance Power Systems (HIPPS) Program, has two contracts in place, one with Foster Wheeler Development Corporation and one with United Technologies Research Center, to develop advanced power generation systems. Based on an indirectly fired cycle, HIPPS uses a combined cycle for power generation at efficiencies of 47-50