Objective
The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and controllable gas turbine on hydrogen-rich syngas with emissions and process parameters similar to current state-of-the-art natural gas turbine engines. This objective will have severe implications on the combustion technology, hot gas path materials, the aerodynamic performance of turbomachinery components, and the system as a whole. The project will address these issues in Subprojects: SP1: Combustion; SP2: Materials; SP3: Turbomachinery and SP4: System analysis. In addition, the project will also look into gas turbine fuel flexibility, which will be demonstrated in order to allow the burning of back-up fuels, such as natural gas, without adversely affecting the reliability and availability. This is an important operational requirement to ensure optimum use of the gas turbine. The H2-IGCC project – coordinated by the European Turbine Network - gathers the whole value chain of gas turbine power plant technology, including Original Equipment Manufacturers, GT users/operators and research institutes with diverse key expertise needed to fulfil the objectives. Successful dissemination and implementation of the results will open up the market for IGCC with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), as it will improve the commercial competitiveness of IGCC technology. In particular, the integrated approach used in the project will enhance confidence and significantly reduce deployment times for the new technologies and concepts developed in this project. The vision is that this will allow for the deployment of high efficiency gas turbines in competitive IGCC plants with CCS technology by 2020.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
1060 Bruxelles
Belgium
Participants (24)
5232 Villigen Psi
51147 Koln
16152 Genova
6041 Gosselies
5612 AE Eindhoven
75008 Paris 08
52428 Julich
20134 Milano
00154 Roma
BN1 9RH Brighton
80333 Munchen
1630 Linkebeek
CF24 ODE Cardiff
2111 Szada
52062 Aachen
MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
00198 Roma
S10 2TN Sheffield
4021 Stavanger
Utrecht
16126 Genova
B37 7YE Birmingham
H91 Galway
EC1V 0HB London