GE Energy | Cleaner Coal IGCC

A Cleaner, Economical Coal-to-Power Solution

Coal is an abundant, relatively low cost fossil fuel choice for power generators, but traditional pulverized coal-fueled power plants are faced with challenges to meet increasingly strict emissions requirements. GE's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) system converts coal into a cleaner burning fuel. This fuel is then burned in a gas turbine combined cycle system to generate electricity. IGCC plants provide a cleaner, economical coal-to-power solution compared to pulverized coal.

Benefits

GE's IGCC "Cleaner Coal" process emits less than half of the sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter of a traditional pulverized coal plant.
The process uses less water than a traditional plant, strengthening the environmental benefits of Cleaner Coal.
Coal is 75% less expensive than natural gas.
Gasifying coal creates a syngas instead of burning the coal directly to generate energy. Pollution causing emissions are captured efficiently and effectively with minimal cost during gasification rather than treating the emissions after combustion.
GE's Cleaner Coal technology increases fuel diversity, reduces emissions, and increases the siting and permitting flexibility of coal power generating plants.

GE engages experts from throughout the gasification industry at both operating and research levels to develop the most economical and reliable approaches to IGCC technology. Using the same combined cycle technology for IGCC that we use for conventional systems, GE offers extensive experience and high reliability.

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Press Releases

Jun 15, 2007 - GE Energy Advances Its Cleaner Coal Solutions for Low Rank Coals

Mar 5, 2007 - GE Energy Signs Its 30th Gasification Technology Licensing Agreement in China

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Events
Coal Gen	Milwaukee, WI	Aug 01-03, 2007
Gasification Technologies Council		Oct 2007