THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S COMBUSTION 2000 PROGRAM: CLEAN, EFFICIENT ELECTRICITY FROM COAL

摘要

The United States Department of Energy's Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, under its Combustion 2000 program, is working with private industry to develop two kinds of advanced, coal-fired electric power generation systems that will have significantly higher thermal efficiency, superior environmental performance and a lower cost of electricity than current coal-fired plants. The low emission boiler system (LEBS) is a highly advanced pulverized-coal-fired power plant which will be ready for commercial introduction before the year 2001. LEBS uses supercritical steam conditions and substantial low-level heat recovery to achieve an efficiency of 42/100.