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Power Generation and Transmission Task Force
Asia-Pacific Partnership American Electric Power Company (AEP) Site Visit Activity
October 30 - November 4, 2006
Under the general task force activity of Best Practices for Power Generation, the American Electric Power Company (AEP) hosted a set of site visits during 30 October - 4 November, 2006. AEP fostered a “hands-on” environment where participants learned from one another, shared information, and collaborated on how best to address the world’s need to generate electricity from coal with less or minimal environmental impacts.
Detailed technical discussions were held to facilitate tangible improvements in generating efficiency and reductions in air emissions. Two technology tracks were held, one focusing on existing generation, specifically efficiency gains and reductions in carbon dioxide and air emissions, the other focusing on advanced power generation, especially Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technologies.
A total of 100 representatives from various companies and organizations from all APP nations attended the AEP event. Over half of the representatives participated in the existing technology track, touring two AEP power plants (Muskingum and Gavin) and interacting with AEP corporate and plant engineers and managers to discuss best practices and technologies used by AEP that might be applicable in other APP nations. AEP shared detailed information on various plant upgrades, including both hardware modifications and implementation of better operating and maintenance procedures, and detailed both plant performance data before and after each modification and the associated economic and environmental impacts.
The engineers then discussed a wide variety of technologies and practices that AEP has had success with that could be applied to power plants in the other nations.
Over forty of the representatives participated in the advanced power generation track, touring DOE’s Power Systems Development Facility, which is operated by Southern Company in Wilsonville, Alabama, to learn about KBR’s transport reactor gasification technology and the 260-MW IGCC plant at Tampa Electric Company’s Polk Power Station, near Tampa, Florida. These tours allowed the participants to see two different types of IGCC technology at large scale.
The engineers in this track also met with several IGCC technology providers (General Electric, GTI/Synthesis Energy, Shell, and Siemens) and discussed IGCC technical and business issues with the AEP IGCC design team working to site AEP’s first commercial IGCC system. The group also heard from Battelle about the latest developments in carbon capture and storage.