Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant

In Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant, you'll learn ...

• Understand the coal industry in the United States
• Know how gasification works
• Understand the different types of gasification processes
• Understand the components of a combined cycle plant

Overview

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Credit: 4 CPD

Length: 41 pages

This four-hour course looks at a new coal-fired power plant technology called an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant. An IGCC power plant converts coal into a synthetic gas which, after suitable cleaning and treatment is burned in a combustion turbine to produce power. Furthermore, the waste heat from the combustion turbine exhaust is then used to convert water into steam and the steam is used to drive a steam turbine to produce even more electrical power.

Gasification technology has been used for years in the chemical industry and a combined cycle power plant is also existing technology, but the marriage of the two technologies is an attempt to develop a new level of efficiency in coal-fired power plants. An additional benefit is that carbon dioxide can be readily captured in an IGCC plant.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the coal industry in the United States.
• Explain how gasification works.
• Distinguish among the different types of gasification processes.
• Identify the components of a combined-cycle plant.
• Explain how an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant operates.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.