Biomass Cofiring with Coal at Seward, Pennsylvania

摘要

The first test under the EPRI/FETC biomass cofiring process was at GPU Genco's 32-MW(sub e) pulverized coal boiler at Seward, Pennsylvania. The unit used in the test (Boiler 12) is a wall-fired boiler built by Babcock & Wilcox, and has a nominal steaming capacity of 300,000 lb/hr of 675 psig/850 F stream. The furnace of Boiler 12 has a volume of 20,000 ft(sup 3) and has a volume in the primary combustion area of 12,700 ft(sup 3). The boiler has two rows of burners, with three burners installed on each row. Typically it consumes coal at about 14 ton/hr when firing at 100 percent of capacity. This boiler, along with Boiler 14, supply steam to a 64 MW(sub e) Westinghouse turbine. The net station heat rate (NSHR) for Boilers 12 and 14, and the associated turbine, is 14,200 Btu/kWh. Boiler 14 has been used to test coal water slurry (CWS), and that experience contributed to the design and execution of this cofiring test, where sawdust was the biomass fuel.