Basic design model of entrained-bed coal gasification system in IGCC power plant

Proposed is the basic design model of entrained-bed coal gasification system, which will be a tool to identify the basic design parameters and the feasible operating range of each component in the system. The present design model is composed of three major design modules for coal/oxidizer burner nozzle, gasifier with refractory, preheater, slag discharge hopper and product gas quenching system. Each design module is constructed by incorporating lumped-mass based design approach with thermochemical data and relevant correlation in order to give the basic design specification of the component, and is then coupled together with other design module. Using the present design model, parametric studies are carried out to investigate the influences of gasification system design variables on the performance parameters of key component, and then scale-up analysis is performed to obtain design data for large scale IGCC (integrated gasification combined cycle) application. Furthermore, the present model will be combined with the data base of marketable products, from which the designer can select the product suitable to the component design specification obtained from design modules