As per the terms of the contract, Shaw will be responsible for the pre-front-end-engineering-design phase, which will include a study for a 50MW commercial demonstration unit to be built at Tampa Electric Company’s 250MW integrated gasification combined cycle power plant in Florida.
The project, which is aimed at developing a new technology that will eliminate the need for syngas cooling and heat recovery systems, is expected to reduce the capital and operating costs of an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant.
RTI’s contract with Shaw has been funded through its agreement with the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory to design and build a demonstration unit.
David Myers, vice president of engineering and technology unit at RTI, said: “This 50MW scale-up will mitigate the remaining technical risks before full commercial deployment.
“Beyond application in the power industry, the technology also holds tremendous potential to reduce the cost of producing hydrogen, chemicals such as methanol and ammonia, and fuels through gasification of coal or other low value carbonaceous feedstocks, while enabling carbon capture through conventional or advanced CO2 removal technologies.”
