Combined cycle gas turbines and clean coal

Increasing power generation requirements, competition with other fuels, work in regions which were or are industrialised but rich only in coal have forced the production of alternative fuels from coal. Various processes have now been developed to enable the production of clean, relatively simple fuels from coal. This is clean coal technology. Here, the author describes a prototype integrated combined cycle gas turbine power plant to demonstrate that viable clean coal technology can now be designed and constructed with confidence. Identification of a host site for the prototype plant is an action being undertaken at this time. Work continues to advance the state of the technology which is being established to permit the design of a full 400 MWe and larger commercial plants