Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) System
The Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle system converts coal into a high-value, cleaner burning fuel. Using this fuel, a power plant can reduce its key pollutants compared to a conventional coal power plant.
Environmental Benefit
A GE IGCC plant without carbon capture and sequestration is designed to emit 99 percent less SO2 and 82 percent less NOx per million BTU than a typical U.S. supercritical pulverized coal plant without carbon capture and sequestration.
Operating Benefit
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, IGCC technology can reduce mercury emissions by half when compared to conventional coal technology.
The environmental challenge
GE's advanced coal technology is making coal a very attractive energy source.
Sometimes we use our ecomagination to reinvent the way we use an existing resource. 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.
GE's IGCC solution allows power generators to use coal — an abundant, low cost, domestic resource — to generate electricity while reducing emissions like sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter. In addition, the gasification process enables carbon capture for future storage.
