Conversion of Rapid City Pilot Plant: Phase II, Preliminary Detailed Design. Volume II. Conversion Work, Equipment List and Drawings, Phase III, Work Scope, Project Schedule. Phase II Final Report, December 15, 1977--August 15, 1978

摘要

This report summarizes the work necessary to convert the existing CO sub 2 -Acceptor Pilot Plant in Rapid City, South Dakota to a Westinghouse Low Btu Coal Gasification Facility. This Phase II Study carries the design into further detail and enumerates the work items necessary for the conversion. The design basis for the plant, described in the report for Phase I, is reproduced here, as Appendix I. The Westinghouse Process is a two-stage pressurized low Btu fluid bed gasification process. It is now being developed in a Process Demonstration Unit (PDU) located a Waltz Mill (near Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. The PDU has a feed rate of about 0.6 tons of coal per hour. The CO sub 2 -Acceptor Pilot Plant is now in a deactivated status, having completed its last experimental run in the fall of 1977. After the conversion has been accomplished, the plant will have a feed rate of about 2.5 tons of coal per hour. (ERA citation 04:025206)