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Factors Affecting the Take-Up of Clean Coal Technologies- Overview Report | |
| 1996 | ||
| Size: 5024 KB | ||
| ISBN: 92-64-14872-8 | ||
| No. of Pages: 73 | ||
| Download the PDF | Type of Document: Study (Book) | |
The International Energy Agency today released the third in a series of reports on clean coal technologies. The report, prepared by the Agency’s Coal Industry Advisory Board (CIAB) and entitled Factors Affecting the Take-Up of Clean Coal Technologies, responds to the need for information to overcome the barriers to the use of these technologies. It is aimed at non-specialists in industry and government who may play a role in decisions on new investments. Coal is an essential source of energy but its continued use and growth in the longer term may depend on overcoming the barriers delaying the widespread adoption of new technologies which have been demonstrated successfully or are in limited commercial use. The CIAB study compares available clean coal technologies using a list of nine key criteria to suggest where they would be most suitably applied: maturity of technology, plant size, fuel flexibility, thermal efficiency, operational performance, environmental performance, availability, build time, and capital cost . The report reaches several important conclusions: • The various clean coal technologies are in different stages of development. Only supercritical Pulverised Fuel (PF) plant can be regarded as commercially proven to achieve high efficiencies. • The various clean coal technologies all have their individual strengths and weaknesses. All the technologies should find a role in the global market for generating equipment. PF plant is the most mature technology, and the most efficient plant currently operating is a supercritical PF power station. In terms of fuel flexibility, Fluidised Bed plant is in first place, but Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle is the cleanest of all the coal technologies • Further demonstration of the new technologies is necessary to promote their adoption. Promotion should be undertaken in OECD countries. • The bulk of new coal-fired power plant over the next 10 years will be built in South East Asia (predominantly China) and the Indian sub-continent. Most of this capacity will be relatively low efficiency subcritical PF plant. The benefits of supercritical plant need to be promoted in these emerging nations. • There is scope for redirecting the technical development effort on clean coal technologies to remove barriers to their adoption. This is the third in a series of three publications by the CIAB. The first, Industry Attitudes to Combined Cycle Clean Coal Technologies - Survey of Current Status, was published in 1994, and the second, Industry Attitudes to Steam Cycle Clean Coal Technologies - Survey of Current Status, was published in 1995. The CIAB brings together some 45 top-level industry leaders to advise the IEA on issues affecting coal and its utilisation. |
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