... of high quality fuels such as natural gas, low-grade fuels are receiving increased attention. The most common alternative fuels are coal, biomass, and oil residue-petcoke. In a combined-cycle power plant (e.g., IGCC), filtered syngas that is generated from these “dirty” fuels in a gasifier still contains...

...Seth A. Lawson; Karen A. Thole Demand for clean energy has increased motivation to design gas turbines capable of burning alternative fuels such as coal derived synthesis gas (syngas). One challenge associated with burning coal derived syngas is that trace amounts of particulate matter in the fuel...