We are getting to the business end of ALDP now and should get a...

We are getting to the business end of ALDP now and should get a better idea of who's getting funding soon.

This link from Feb 2013 gives some good hints as to what looks like happening at Loy Yang IMO.

I remember reading in the summary from BCIA event posted by Lexie that Worley Parsons had presented on Great River Energy and their DryFining tech for BC drying which they were looking at implementing at Loy Yang.

The following linked report was prepared in part by Sinclair Knight Mertz who were also at BCIA and were stressing the importance of deliverability via funding and experienced partners etc..

Towards end of report you will see engineering drawings from 2012 showing the dryer integrated into the plant as part of Loy Yang's CCS plant plans.

I am not sure if this project proposed for LY would be after ALDP funding but seems coincidental that nearly all Co's involved in the project were at the BCIA event.

http://cdn.globalccsinstitute.com/sites/default/files/publications/91896/post-combustion-carbon-capture-thermodynamic-modelling.pdf


3.3 Description Coal Drying Plant
Great River Energy (GRE) has developed and patented a unique coal drying and coal upgrading
technology, termed DryFiningTM, which enables improvement in the performance efficiency of a coal
fired power station and thereby reduce the emissions and the station’s carbon footprint. The
DryFiningTM concept involves utilizing waste heat which may be available in a power station to
partially dry the feed (raw) coal in a fluidized bed dryer (FBD). Using gravitational segregation feature
of a fluidized bed and a special design of the coal dryer, denser materials present in the coal such as
pyrites, small rocks, and sands are segregated and separated from coal, thereby improving the
quality of the coal fed to the power station. DryFiningTM was developed in conjunction with the first
round of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) and with the
additional support of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) based in Morgantown, West
Virginia. Over the last decade GRE has proved technical feasibility of the concept firstly in a proof-ofconcept
2 t/hr pilot-scale coal dryer, then a 75 t/hr prototype-scale dryer integrated in the GRE Coal
Creek Station, located near Bismark, North Dakota, USA, and finally in the complete conversion of
this 2 x 600 MW mine-mouth station to DryFiningTM the whole coal feed for the power station. The
commercial coal drying system at Coal Creek includes four commercial size (125 t/hr) moving bed
fluidized bed dryers per unit, crushers, a conveying system to handle raw lignite, segregated, and
product streams, particulate control system, and control system. The system is fully instrumented for
process monitoring and control. System commissioning was completed in December 2009.
The resultant reduction in emissions, including NOx, SOx, mercury and carbon dioxide as well as the
increase in power production per ton of coal have confirmed the technical and economic viability of
this concept. Under the conditions of the DOE Initiative, GRE is able to promote the use of the
DryFiningTM technology elsewhere in the world. Power stations which fire high-moisture coals will find
particular advantage with the implementation of DryFiningTM technology.


Loy Yang Power
www.loyyangpower.com.au
Loy Yang Power owns and operates the Loy Yang A Power Station and the adjacent Loy Yang coal
mine. Loy Yang Power is Victoria’s largest electricity generation facility supplying approximately one
third of the state’s electricity requirements. From a National Electricity Market perspective it supplies
the equivalent of 8% of total generation for Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia,
Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
Loy Yang Power is owned by the Great Energy Alliance Corporation (GEAC). GEAC consists of the
following shareholders – AGL (32.5%), Tokyo Electric Power Company (32.5%), RATCH-Australia
Corporation Ltd (14%), Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) Superannuation Fund (12.8%),
Westscheme (5.7%) and Statewide Super (2.5%).
Loy Yang A Power Station has a generating capacity of 2,200MW and is fuelled from the Loy Yang
Power mine, which is the largest open cut brown coal mine in Australia, with an annual output of
approximately 30 million tonnes of coal. The Loy Yang Power mine also supplies brown coal
resources to the adjacent Loy Yang B Power Station.
Loy Yang A Power Station is located within the heart of the Latrobe Valley, 165 kilometres east of
Melbourne. It commenced operations as a corporatised entity in February 1995 following the
disaggregation of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and its generating arm, Generation
Victoria. Loy Yang Power was privatised in May 1997 as part of the Victorian Government's
privatisation strategy.
Loy Yang Power has been a lead participant and active collaborator in the brown coal research and
development space for many years, including participation in:
• Victorian Government’s R&D Advisory Committee;
• Cooperative Research Centre for Clean Power from Lignite;
• Mechanical Thermal Expression Coal Dewatering demonstration facility;
• Victorian Government / LV Generator strategic efficiency improvements & CO2 abatement options
studies undertaken by SKM;
• ETIS research and development projects viz, Advanced Materials, Phased Array, Small
gasification, Oxyfuel, etc;
• Bankable feasibility studies for a new Power Station and re-powering of existing station with
improved emissions performance;
• Latrobe Valley Post Combustion Capture project with CSIRO, International Power-Hazelwood
and CO2CRC.


WorleyParsons
www.worleyparsons.com
WorleyParsons is one of the world's largest engineering and project delivery companies and has
serviced the global resource, energy and infrastructure markets for over 30 years. With 40,800
personnel in 163 offices in 41 countries, WorleyParsons have the technical expertise, project delivery
capability, global reach and depth of resources to provide a comprehensive range of solutions to their
customers.
WorleyParsons has extensive experience in the design and construction of CO2 capture, compression
and pipeline transport, and the range of issues for deep geological storage. WorleyParsons has
provided carbon capture plant design, and support contractor services for over 27 years to our energy
customers and national research organizations including the U.S. Department of Energy and the
Electric Power Research Institute. WorleyParsons also has substantial qualifications and experience
in materials handling, infrastructure, environmental compliance, permitting, and operations which
provides our clients a full scope capability to assure project success from concept through
commissioning.


Great River Energy

Great River Energy is a not-for-profit cooperative which provides wholesale electric service to 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Those member cooperatives distribute electricity to more than 639,000 member consumers – or about 1.7 million people. With $3 billion in assets, Great River Energy is the second largest electric power supplier in Minnesota and one of the largest generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives in the United States. Great River Energy’s member cooperatives range from those in the outer-ring suburbs of the Twin Cities to the Arrowhead region of Minnesota to the farmland of southwestern Minnesota. Great River Energy’s largest distribution cooperative serves more than 120,000 member-consumers; the smallest serves about 2,400.



http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/publications/post-combustion-carbon-capture-thermodynamic-modelling/online/94601

http://www.greatriverenergy.com/index.html


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