SYNGAS for Power Generation

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Introduction to Syngas

The calorific value of SynGas is only one third that of natural gas, which may limit opportunities to sell the gas to existing local power plants. Therefore, power will be initially produced on site without carbon capture, using gas turbine generators modified to run on SynGas, and exported to the National Grid. It is anticipated that up to 50 MW of capacity, a breakpoint in power station licensing regulations, would be installed at an early stage of the development. Once the economic conditions for full carbon capture and storage are established, the generation capacity will be increased using either Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) or Oxyfuel Combustion plants.




HOW IS IT USED FOR POWERGEN? >>

		How is it used for Powergen In its simplest form we simply burn the syngas using an adapted gas turbine. After some clean up we can remove the unwanted gases and burn it either with pure oxogen or as hydrogen. In both cases we are can capture the CO2 for storage.



POTENTIAL FOR CCS >>

		Potential for CCS As we undertake 3D seismic analyses, we shall investigate the possibility of CO2 sequestration in the sandstone adjacent to the reactor site. In at least one of the sites there is the possibility of utilizing depleted oil and/or gas reservoirs nearby. While there is a theoretical possibility that we could store C02 in the cavity space created, we do not intend to do this at this time, nor do we plan to store C02 in any coal measure as we believe that this would limit the future opportunities for coal exploitation.