... 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 small amounts of entrained particulate, which is then introduced with the combustion products into the gas turbine. Metal...

...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...