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The Combustion Technologies Product uses a number of abbreviations and acronyms. This web page gives you a definition of frequently used terms, as follows:
- 1½-Generation PFBC -- A PFBC plant where the hot (about 1400ºF) PFBC exhaust gases are used as a vitiated air supply for a natural gas combustor supplying high-temperature gas (above 2000ºF) to a combustion turbine expander (synonym for "PFB-NGT").
- 1st-Generation PFBC -- Commercial PFBC technology where an unfired low-temperature (below 1650ºF) ruggedized turbine expander expands PFBC exhaust gases (synonym for "PFB-EGT").
- 2nd-Generation PFBC (see synonyms: "APFBC," "PFB-CGT") -- Advanced PFBC where a carbonizer (mild gasifier) provides hot (about 1400ºF) coal-derived synthetic fuel gas to a special topping combustor. The carbonizer char is burned in the PFBC, and the PFBC exhaust is used as a hot (about 1400ºF) vitiated air supply for the topping combustor. The syngas and vitiated air are burned in a topping combustor to provide high-temperature gas (above 1700ºF) to a combustion turbine expander.
- AES -- A company name; AES Corporation is a holding company that owns a number of power generating plants that operate as independent power producers, including AES Greenidge, one of the power plants that is part of this evaluation series.
- AFB -- Atmospheric fluidized bed.
- AFBC -- Atmospheric fluidized-bed combustion.
- ANSI -- American National Standards Institute.
- APFB -- Advanced pressurized fluidized bed.
- APFBC (see synonym: "2nd-generation PFBC") -- Advanced circulating pressurized fluidized-bed combustion combined cycle power plant system. A 2nd-generation circulating pressurized fluidized-bed combustor-based power cycle. This system uses 100 percent coal, developing a low-Btu fuel gas in a carbonizer to fuel a topping combustor that supplies a combustion turbine. Char from the carbonizer feeds the circulating fluidized-bed combustor, with both APFBC heat recovered from a fluid-bed heat exchanger and gas turbine heat recovered in a heat recovery steam generator supplying high- efficiency steam bottoming cycle loops.
- APS -- Arizona Public Service Company.
- ASME -- American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- ASTM -- American Society for Testing and Materials.
- B&W -- The Babcock & Wilcox Company.
- BACT -- Best available control technology (pollution control).
- CAAA -- Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
- CalPX -- The California Power Exchange, an ISO operating a competitive electric transmission system.
- CCT -- Clean Coal Technology, the DOE Clean Coal Technology demonstration program.
- C-E -- ABB Combustion Engineering.
- CFB -- Circulating fluidized-bed combustor.
- CFM -- Cubic feet per minute.
- CFR -- Code of Federal Regulations.
- Char -- The solid combustible residue that remains after pyrolysis or partial gasification, consisting principally of carbon and ash; char can be readily burned to release heat.
- CHIPPS -- Combustion-based high performance power systems.
- COE -- (Meaning 1) in economic sections: the cost of electricity, the levelized busbar cost of electric production including amortized capital, operating, and maintenance costs.
- COE -- (Meaning 2) in environmental impact sections: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Combustion Turbine, CT -- A synonym for gas turbine, used interchangeably.
- CP&L -- The Carolina Power & Light Company, a Progress Energy company.
- CPC -- Combustion Power Company.
- CPFBC -- Circulating pressurized fluidized-bed combustion.
- CRT -- Cathode ray tube.
- CT -- Combustion turbine (a synonym for gas turbine).
- CTC -- Competitive transition cost (a more precise term for "stranded assets").
- DCS -- Distributed control system.
- DEC -- Department of Environmental Conservation.
- DOE -- United States Department of Energy.
- D-R -- Dresser-Rand, a manufacturer of the turbomachinery described in this report.
- ECAR -- East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement, one of the NERC regions.
- EFORd -- Demand equivalent forced outage rate.
- eGADS -- Electronic generator availability data system; an electronic data system allowing the posting of data regarding a generating unit’s availability record.
- EIA -- The Energy Information Administration of the DOE.
- EPA -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- EPRI -- The Electric Power Research Institute.
- ERCOT -- Electric Reliability Council of Texas, one of the NERC regions.
- ESP -- Electrostatic precipitator, a particulate control device.
- FA -- Forced air.
- FBC -- Fluidized-bed combustion, usually atmospheric pressure.
- FBHE -- Fluid-bed heat exchanger.
- FD -- Forced draft.
- FERC -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
- FETC -- The former name of the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory: the Federal Energy Technology Center; this name is no longer used.
- FGD -- Flue gas desulfurization, a sulfur emission control device.
- FRCC -- Florida Reliability Coordinating Council.
- FW -- Foster Wheeler.
- FWDC -- Foster Wheeler Development Corporation, a manufacturer of the circulating fluidized-bed systems described in this report.
- FWH -- Feedwater heater.
- G.E. -- The General Electric Company.
- GADS -- Generator availability data system; see "eGADS."
- Gas Turbine, GT -- A synonym for combustion turbine, used interchangeably.
- GEMSET -- An acronym for "Government Energy Market Segment Evaluation Tool."
- GFBCC -- Gasification fluidized-bed combustion combined cycle.
- GNP -- Gross national product.
- GT -- Gas turbine (a synonym for combustion turbine).
- GTCC -- Natural gas-fueled gas turbine combined cycle.
- HEX -- Heat exchanger.
- HV -- Higher heating value of a fuel, including the heat released if all of the water vapor in the combustion products were condensed.
- HP -- (Meaning 1) relating to turbines, heaters, or piping: high pressure.
- HP-- (Meaning 2) relating to motors: horsepower.
- HRSG -- Heat recovery steam generator that recovers exhaust heat from a gas turbine, and provides economizing and steam generation surfaces.
- HRU -- Heat recovery unit that recovers exhaust heat from a gas turbine, and provides economizing surfaces to heat feedwater; might include low-pressure steam surfaces to supply deaerating steam.
- HVAC -- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.
- HX -- Heat exchange.
- I&C -- Instrumentation and control.
- I/O -- Input/output.
- ID -- Induced draft.
- IF&P -- Industrial Filter & Pump Manufacturing Company.
- IGCC -- Integrated gasification gas turbine-based combined cycle, a type of combined cycle in which the combustion fuel is gasified coal.
- IP -- Intermediate pressure.
- IPP -- An independent power producer, an unregulated electric generating company.
- IRP -- Integrated resource plan.
- ISO -- Independent system operator; a regulated body that dispatches all competitive electric generation on the high-voltage transmission grid within its service region; they operate the grid, administer the power pools power transfers, select the lower cost generation bid into the pool according to the pool's operating rules, and maintain the integrity of the electric transmission grid.
- LASH -- A solid waste stream mixture of spent limestone sulfur sorbent and coal ash.
- LCC -- Local control center.
- LHV -- Lower heating value of a fuel; the heat released if all of the water vapor in the combustion products remained as steam.
- LMP -- Locational marginal price.
- LP -- Low pressure.
- MAAC -- Mid-Atlantic Area Council, a reliability council, a NERC region.
- MAIN -- Mid-America Interconnected Network.
- MAPP -- Mid-Continent Area Power Pool, a NERC region.
- MASB -- Multi-annular swirl burner.
- MCR -- Maximum continuous rating.
- MHI -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- MVA -- Megavolt amperes.
- MVAR -- Megavolt-ampere-reactive.
- MWe -- Electrical megawatts.
- MWth -- Thermal megawatts.
- MWth -- Thermal megawatts.
- NAERO -- The North American Electric Reliability Organization; NERC is in the process of transforming itself into NAERO, whose principal mission will be to develop, implement, and enforce standards for a reliable North American bulk electric system.
- NERC -- North American Electric Reliability Council; soon, NERC will become NAERO.
- NETL -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.
- NOPR -- Notice of proposed rulemaking.
- NOx -- Nitrogen oxides, types of air pollutant, mainly NO and NO2.
- NPCC -- Northeast Power Coordinating Council, a NERC region.
- NPDES -- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
- NPPD -- Nebraska Public Power District.
- NUG -- Non-utility generator, a competitive, unregulated independent electric power producer.
- NYSEG -- New York State Electric & Gas Corporation, the builders of what is now the AES Greenidge power plant; now a "wires" company.
- OA -- Overfire air.
- OIS -- Operator Interface Units.
- OTAG -- Ozone Transport Assessment Group.
- OTR -- Northeast Ozone Transport Region.
- P&W, P&WA -- Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technologies Corp.
- P.E. -- Licensed professional engineer.
- Parsons E&C, PE&C -- Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group Inc., a global business unit of Parsons Corporation, an engineering/ construction company; part of the DOE team that prepared many of the evaluations.
- Parsons I&T, PI&T -- Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group Inc., a global business unit of Parsons Corporation, an engineering/ construction company; part of the DOE team that prepared this report.
- PCD -- Particulate emission control device.
- PCFB -- Pressurized circulating fluidized bed.
- PDU -- Process development unit.
- PE&C -- Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group Inc.
- PFB -- Pressurized fluidized bed.
- PFBC -- Pressurized fluidized-bed combustor, if referring to a device for burning solid fuels; or pressurized fluidized-bed combustion system, if referring to a type of system.
- PI&T -- Parsons Infrastructure and Technologies Group Inc.
- PICFB -- Pressurized internally circulating fluidized-bed boiler.
- PJM -- PJM Interconnection LLC, an ISO serving principally Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland.
- PSC -- Local state Public Service Commission.
- PSDF -- The DOE Power System Development Facility in Wilsonville Alabama, operated by Southern Services Company.
- RACT -- Reasonably available control technology (pollution control).
- RAM -- Reliability, availability, maintainability analysis.
- RCRA -- Resource Conservation Recovery Act.
- REP -- Range Estimating Program.
- RH -- Reheat.
- RIT -- Rotor inlet temperature; the isentropic stagnation temperature of the 1st-stage high-pressure gas turbine inlet gases after passing through the 1st stator (vane) row and after mixing with the 1st-stage vane cooling air, but before entering the 1st rotor stage, prior to being influenced by the 1st rotor cooling air.
- RMCP -- Regulation market clearing price.
- RPD -- Restricted pipe discharge.
- R-R -- Rolls-Royce Ltd.
- RTO -- Regional transmission owner.
- SCFM -- Standard cubic feet per minute.
- SCNG -- The DOE's Strategic Center for Natural Gas.
- SCR -- Selective catalytic reduction, an anti-NOx pollution control device.
- SCS -- Southern Company Services, Inc.
- SERC -- Southeast Electric Reliability Council, a NERC region.
- SNCR -- Selective non-catalytic reduction, an anti-NOx pollution control device.
- SOx -- Sulfur oxides, types of air pollutant, mainly SO2.
- SPP -- Southwest Power Pool, a NERC region.
- ST -- Steam turbine.
- STG -- Steam turbine generator.
- SWPC -- Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation.
- TCLP -- Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure.
- TPH -- Tons per hour.
- UTSI -- University of Tennessee Space Institute.
- VAR -- Volt-amperes, reactive.
- VOCs -- Volatile organic compounds.
- WSCC -- Western Systems Coordinating Council.
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