Siemens to supply technology for new IGCC project in the U.S.

Enstreet News Bureau
7/20/2010

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany) a power service provider has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC project will use coal as its feedstock. With a gross capacity of 400 megawatt (MWe), the plant will also produce urea for the U.S. fertilizer market.

With a carbon capture rate of 90% the plant will have one of the highest carbon capture rates of any IGCC plant in the world. The CO₂ will be used for enhanced oil recovery in the West Texas area. Siemens will be working with Fluor and Linde during the project’s FEED. This project received a USD 350 million award under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) - Round 3 to demonstrate the commercial integration of large-scale IGCC with CO₂ capture and geologic storage.

The Texas Clean Energy Project will be located in Penwell, near Odessa, Texas. Siemens will deliver the gasification island technology, which will include two SFG-500 gasifiers. The power block will be based on an SGT6-5000F gas turbine modified to operate on high H2 syngas, which will allow the plant to have a very high carbon capture rate of about three million tons/year. The power block will also include a Siemens SST-900RH steam turbine, air-cooled generators and SPPA-T3000 controls.

“Summit and Siemens have a long and successful working relationship that provides a strong foundation for this world-class IGCC project. We greatly value Summit’s confidence in the Siemens power generation and gasification technologies as the best choice for its IGCC project,” said Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. “We have made great innovations and investments in clean coal technology over the past few years, and we are excited to now be on the forefront of today’s deployment of clean coal technology.”

“We are pleased to be moving forward with Siemens on this breakthrough fossil energy project,” said Donald Hodel, Chairman of Summit Power Group and former U.S. Secretary of Energy. “Our nearly 20-year working relationship with Siemens has enabled us together to find a way to use the world’s vast coal reserves in the cleanest manner possible, providing future generations with a higher degree of energy security in an environmentally sound fashion. We both look forward to working with the U.S. Department of Energy and our other technology partners to accomplish these important goals.”

Source: Siemens Energy