Integrated gasification, fuel cell plant

INTEGRATED GASIFICATION FUEL CELL POWER PLANT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT... 

Integrated Gasification-Fuel Cell Power Plant." Advanced Fossil Power Systems Report, EPRI/AFPS Developments, Winter 1989, Issue 3. 

At last, the aim would be the substitution of conventional coal-fired generation with Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plants that integrate fuel cells and gas turbines. This chapter studies the use of distributed resources for ancillary services and simulating the impact of distributed resources on utility distribution networks. 

Lokurlu A., Pruscheck R. (1999) Simulation of advanced SOFC power plants with gas and steam turbine cycles on the basis of integrated coal gasification (IGFC). In Pmceeedings of the 6th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC IV), Honolulu, HI, pp. 439-446. 

Moreover, there is a potential application of polymeric membranes for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants, some aspects of the integration of a membrane reactor with a fuel cell, the possibility to integrate a membrane reformer into a solar system, and the potential application of membrane integrated systems in the fusion reactor fuel cycle, which are attracting many scientists and so will also be introduced and discussed in this chapter. 

The other application which has been much studied is that of integration of SOFCs with coal gasification. An SOFC is eminently suited to integration with a coal gasifier plant in large power stations and should result in highest overall conversion compared to other fuel cell types. Unfortunately, the investment required to build such plants is large. 

Sandler, H.S. and Meyers, S.J. Integrated Coal Gasification in Carbonate Fuel Cell Power Plants 11th Annual Conference on Gasification Power Plants, EPRI, October 1992. 

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