Market-Based Advanced Coal Power Systems

Final Report - May 1999

Dramatic improvements in the economics of the pulverized coal and the natural gas combined cycle power plant over the last decade have occurred in response to the concerns of the decision-maker in assuring the financial success of power projects.

The objective of this report is to provide economic data and supporting analyses in determining commercially mature costs for clean coal technologies through evaluation and correlation to the cost improvement trends of the state-of-the-art pulverized coal and gas turbine power plants.

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• Section 1 - Introduction
• Section 2 - General Evaluation Basis
• Section 3 - Pulverized Coal-Fired Plant   [Subcritical, Supercritical, Ultra-Supercritical]
• Section 4 - Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
• Section 5 - Circulating Pressurized Fluid Bed Combustor
• Section 6 - Natural Gas Combined Cycle
• Section 7 - Instrumentation and Control Technology
• Section 8 - Analysis of Environmental Uncertainties
• Section 9 - Capital and Production Cost and Economic Analysis

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• Appendix A - Supercritical Units
• Appendix B - Atmospheric Fluidized Circulating Boilers
• Appendix C - Natural Gas Combined Cycle Units
• Appendix D - Reliability and Availability
• Appendix E - Natural Gas Combined Cycle "H" Class Gas Turbine, Subcritical PC, Supercritical PC, Ultracritical PC, FOAK Oxygen-Blown IGCC, Intermediate Oxygen-Blown IGCC, Advanced Air-Blown IGCC, Advanced Oxygen-Blown IGCC, 2nd-Generation PFBC with Boost, Natural Gas Combined Cycle "G" Class Gas Turbine
  

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