China Huaneng's Tianjin IGCC Project Begins Commissioning

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The plant-service power supply of China Huaneng Group's (Beijing) integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) project in Tianjin was energized for the first time on January 28, 2011. This marks that the first IGCC demonstrative project in China has entered its commissioning stage.

The IGCC project, which is in the Tianjin Lingang Industry Zone, is built and operated by Greengen Company Limited (Tianjin), a joint venture under the control of China Huaneng Group (51%), with the participation of seven other leading energy players in China: China Datang Corporation (Beijing), China Huadian Corporation (Beijing), China Guodian Corporation (Beijing), China Power Investment Corporation (Beijing), China Shenhua Group (Beijing), China National Coal Group Corporation (Beijing) and the State Development and Investment Corporation (Beijing). Each of them holds 7% equity in the company.

The project is furnished with a 265-megawatt (MW) IGCC unit for the initial stage, with a 2,000-ton-per-day gasification furnace developed by China Huaneng. Northwest Electric Power Design Institute (Xi'an, Shaanxi), a regional subsidiary of China Power Engineering Consultancy Corporation (Beijing), is responsible for the overall design of the project. The first energizing of the plant service power supply kicked off on the evening of January 27.

China Huaneng proposed the Greengen program in 2004, and the Greengen Company was established in 2005 to develop a close-to-zero-emission coal-fired power generation technology within 10 years. The project received final approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, the top planner of China, in June 2009. Construction of Phase I kicked off on July 6, 2009.

China Huaneng will continue its research and development in Greengen to complete a 400-MW IGCC demonstrative project in 2015.

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