Mulgrave IDGCC project

Facts:

This Integrated Drying Gasification Combined-Cycle (IDGCC) project at Loy Yang in Victoria is pressurized drying and gasification of a 400 MW brown coal-fired power plant, with the objective to reduce CO2 emissions by 40%. Pre-combustion CO2 capture will be employed at a 10 MW pilot scale initially.

The project partners are HRL Developments, Harbin Power Engineering Ltd (HPE) and CO2CRC. The project, estimated at A$ 750 million, is supported with A$100 million from LETDF and A$50 million from ETIS (Energy Technology Innovation Strategy).

The project is scheduled to commence construction of the power station in 2007 with completion after 2009. The Victorian Government has granted an exploration licence over sufficient coal for 40 years operation of that power station. HRL will build a 100 MW intermediate scale brown coal IDGCC plant in the Latrobe Valley in the next four years as the first commercial demonstration of this patented technology.

Successful development of IDGCC technology opens the way for oxygen-blown brown coal IGCC suitable for CCS in the period 2010 – 2020 and will bridge to the hydrogen economy. Oxygen-blown brown coal gasification has already been tested by HRL in its pilot scale gasifier in Mulgrave.