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TWENTY - THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH COAL CONFERENCE COAL - ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACTS BOOKLET David L. Lawrence Convention Center Hosted By University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering The Westin Hotel - Convention Center Pittsburgh, PA, USA September 25-28, 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Oral Sessions Page Oral Sessions Page 1: Gasification Technologies: Applications and 30: Global Climate Change: CO Capture – 2: 1 2 25 Economics – 1 Membranes and Solid Sorbents 2: Synthesis of Liquid Fuels, Chemicals, Materials and 31: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Technology 1 26 Other Non–Fuel Uses of Coal: Basics, FT/DME Development – 1 3: Combustion Technologies – 1: Advancing PC Plants 32: Gasification Technologies: Fundamentals and 2 27 to Near-Zero Emissions Simulations – 3 4: Environmental Control Technologies: Mercury 33: Combustion Technologies – 6: Combustion Studies 29 3 Absorption – 1 34: Environmental Control Technologies: Mercury – 1 29 5: Hydrogen from Coal: General Topics 4 35: Gas Turbines and Fuel Cells for Synthesis Gas and 30 6: Global Climate Change: Geologic Carbon Hydrogen Applications – 2 5 Sequestration – 1 36: Coal Production and Preparation – 1 31 7: Gasification Technologies: Applications and 37: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Technology 5 32 Economics – 2 Development – 2 8: Synthesis of Liquid Fuels, Chemicals, Materials and 38: Coal Chemistry, Geosciences and Resources: 6 33 Other Non–Fuel Uses of Coal: Applied FT/CTL Geosciences 9: Combustion Technologies – 2: Mercury Capture 39: Materials, Instrumentation, and Controls – 1 34 7 from Flue Gas 40: Environmental Control Technologies: Mercury – 2 35 10: Environmental Control Technologies: Mercury 41: Coal Utilization By-Products – 1 36 8 Absorption – 2 42: Coal Production and Preparation – 2 37 11: Hydrogen from Coal: Storage/Syngas to Hydrogen 9 43: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Technology 37 12: Global Climate Change: Geologic Carbon Development – 3 10 Sequestration – 2 44: Coal Chemistry, Geosciences, and Resources: 38 13: Gasification Technologies: Applications and Mineral Matter, Coal Ash, Coal Combustion 11 Economics – 3 45: Materials, Instrumentation, and Controls – 2 39 14: Synthesis of Liquid Fuels, Chemicals, Materials 46: Environmental Control Technologies: 40 and Other Non-Fuel Uses of Coal: Coke and 12 Mercury/Others Others 47: Coal Utilization By-Products – 2 41 15: Combustion Technologies – 3: Oxy-Fuel 48: Coal Production and Preparation – 3 42 12 Combustion 49: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Technology 43 16: Environmental Control Technologies: SO , NO , Development – 4 x x 13 Particulate and Mercury – 1 50: Coal Chemistry, Geosciences, and Resources: Coal 44 17: Hydrogen from Coal: Membrane Separation 14 Chemistry 18: Global Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas 51: Materials, Instrumentation, and Controls – 3 45 15 Utilization and Novel Concepts 52: Environmental Control Technologies: General 46 19: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Synthesis Topics 16 Gas Cleanup – 1 53: Coal Utilization By-Products – 3 47 20: Gasification Technologies: Fundamentals and 54: Coal Production and Preparation – 4 48 17 Simulations – 1 21: Combustion Technologies – 4: Coal Co-Fired with 18 Other Fuels 22: Environmental Control Technologies: SO , NO , Poster Sessions Page x x 19 Particulate and Mercury – 2 23: Hydrogen from Coal: Shift Catalyst and 1: Combustion Technologies 49 19 Gasification 2: Gasification Technologies / Hydrogen from Coal 49 24: Global Climate Change: CO Capture – 1: 3: Gas Turbines and Fuel Cells for Synthesis Gas and 2 20 51 Chemical Sorbents Hydrogen Applications 25: Gasification Technologies: Advanced Synthesis 4: Materials, Instrumentation and Controls 52 21 Gas Cleanup – 2 5: Environmental Control Technologies 52 26: Gasification Technologies: Fundamentals and 6: Synthesis of Liquid Fuels, Chemicals, Materials and 22 53 Simulations – 2 Other Non-Fuel Uses of Coal 27: Combustion Technologies – 5: Coal Reactivity and 7: Coal Chemistry, Geosciences and Resources 54 23 Kinetic Studies 28: Environmental Control Technologies: Mercury 24 Oxidation/Catalysts 29: Gas Turbines and Fuel Cells for Synthesis Gas and 25 Hydrogen Applications – 1 A NOTE TO THE READER This Abstracts Booklet is prepared solely as a convenient reference for the Conference participants. Abstracts are arranged in a numerical order of the oral and poster sessions as published in the Final Conference Program. In order to facilitate the task for the reader to locate a specific abstract in a given session, each paper is given two numbers: the first designates the session number and the second represents the paper number in that session. For example, Paper No. 25-1 is the first paper to be presented in the Oral Session #25. Similarly, Paper No. P3-1 is the first paper to appear in the Poster Session #3. It should be cautioned that this Abstracts Booklet is prepared based on the original abstract that was submitted, unless the author noted an abstract change. The contents of the Booklet do not reflect late changes made by the authors for their presentations at the Conference. The reader should consult the Final Conference Program for any such changes. Furthermore, updated and detailed full manuscripts are published in the CD-ROM Conference Proceedings, made available to all registered participants at the Conference. On behalf of the Twenty-Third Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, we wish to express our sincere appreciation to Ms. Heidi M. Aufdenkamp, Ms. Diane McMartin, and Mr. Yannick Heintz for their invaluable assistance in preparing this Abstract Booklet. Badie Morsi Executive Director International Pittsburgh Coal Conference University of Pittsburgh September 2006 Copyright © 2006 Pittsburgh Coal Conference 1-5 SESSION 1 Environmental Permitting for IGCC Power Plants GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Stephen Jenkins, URS Corporate, USA APPLICATIONS AND ECONOMICS – 1 Over the past 10 years, power company environmental staff and state and federal environmental agency staff have had extensive experience with the permitting requirements 1-1 for hundreds of natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants and some coal-fired power The Gasification Industry: Progress & Prospects plants. Due to the costs of natural gas, stricter environmental requirements, and incentives in James M. Childress, Gasification Technologies Council, USA the Energy Policy Act of 2005, many power companies are now planning to develop Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plants that will use coal or blends of The author will review the major factors that have driven the scope of development of coal and other feedstocks. Since there are only two operating IGCC power plants in the U.S., the gasification industry over the immediate past (three years) – energy market, with only 10 years of operating history, there is limited information on environmental environmental regulation, technology development and government policies (at the profiles and performance, and little hands-on experience in power companies and federal and state level – and offer insights into what the future may hold over the near environmental agencies with the air, water, and waste permitting requirements for IGCC and mid term period. The focus will be on the U.S. industry with somewhat less power plants. detailed analysis of international developments in major markets. This paper explains how IGCC technology and environmental profiles are different from natural gas-fired combined cycle and coal-fired power plant technology, as well as how 1-2 permitting procedures are similar to and different from those used for natural gas-fired Polygeneration: Market Barriers and Incentives Considered combined cycle power plant and coal-fired power plant permitting. The paper also discusses Lynn L. Schloesser, Eastman Chemical Company, USA the specific regulations that now apply to IGCC power plants, and provides a summary of key guidelines for air, water, and waste permitting. This will promote the use of standardized The global market has potential for advances in technological efficiency in the approaches and calculation methods in permit applications, making it easier for conversion of coal to energy and materials. Following the rise of “market power” and environmental agency staff to review the applications. This will help assure that the new the technology deployment of combined heat and power (CHP); gasification as fleet of IGCC power plants will be developed based on permits that have comparable coproduction, or polygeneration (production of electricity, process steam, chemical emission limits and utilize effective compliance assurance methods based on the lessons feedstocks or fuels), offers economic opportunity for doubling or tripling efficiency learned over the past 10 years of IGCC power plant operation. (extending the life of coal reserves), achieving near-zero emissions, and building a bridge to the hydrogen economy. Gasification technology as polygeneration is poised to become commercial, particularly in the natural gas dependent, industrial sectors. SESSION 2 Though industrials are motivated by tight natural gas supply and demand, market SYNTHESIS OF LIQUID FUELS, CHEMICALS, MATERIALS AND barriers remain. This paper briefly examines the technology, and the market incentives, OTHER NON-FUEL USES OF COAL: BASICS, FT/DME opportunities, and barriers to polygeneration, with particular emphasis on electricity market barriers and economic incentives in North America.