Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc a global energy and gasification technology company announced positive data from laboratory-scale testing of three Turkish lignite coals being considered for clean coal-based power generation projects in Turkey. The projects are under development by Tuten Ltd for a large Turkish utility company that is looking to expand its clean energy portfolio.
The coal tests, conducted by SES at the Gas Technology Institute's laboratory facilities in Des Plaines, Illinois, demonstrated that each coal tested using SES' proprietary fluidized bed gasification technology achieved single-pass carbon conversions of between 96% and 99.5%. The results of these tests will enable TUTEN's project sponsor to move forward in its project development using local, low grade, low cost lignite that is otherwise unsuitable for conventional power generation.
For this project, SES, TUTEN and Istroenergo Group a Slovakia based engineering, procurement and construction company, have developed a conceptual level design solution for 50 MW and 100 MW size power generation modules for this type of low grade, low cost lignite fuel. Through the use of coal gasification and aeroderivative power generation, the plant design integrates SES' technology for synthesis gas production to fuel a General Electric LM2500+G4 aeroderivative gas turbine in combined cycle for nominally 50 MW or 100 MW of gross power output.
Mr Robert Rigdon president and CEO of SES stated that "Once again, we have demonstrated our technology's capabilities for efficiently gasifying low quality coals that can enable our industrial and energy partners to produce low cost and environmentally friendly captive power. The high carbon conversion of these Turkish lignite coals gives us added confidence that small-scale power plants based on coal feed stocks of this nature will have wide applications in many parts of the world."
Mr Tarik Tuten founding partner of TUTEN, commented that "We are very pleased with the results of this coal testing and look forward to advancing to the next project development steps with our utility customer in Turkey. We believe that the results demonstrated by SES' technology will give our project sponsor and stakeholders a high degree of confidence that we can provide them with a clean, efficient and cost effective power generation solution."
SES, IEG and GE, through the support of TUTEN, have been marketing small scale, clean coal power generation plants in regions where low rank coal is readily available and distributed power generation is needed in order to support industry and infrastructure in developing regions including Southern Africa and Turkey.
Darryl Wilson president and CEO Aeroderivative Gas Turbines for GE Power & Water said that "We look forward to showcasing the considerable strengths and versatility of GE's LM2500+G4 aeroderivative gas turbine with our partners on this project. The LM2500+G4 turbine, capable of producing more than 36 MW of power in 10 minutes, brings industrial and independent power producers unsurpassed power generation reliability and availability. With its flexibility to operate on a variety of fuel types such as coke oven gas, landfill gas and syngas, such as in this case, produced from low grade lignite coal, the LM2500+G4 is the ideal engine choice for this type of power plant design."
Source - Synthesis Energy
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