2007 Volume 49 Issue 147 Pages 46-61
In Japan, we depend on the import from foreign countries for most in the primary energy resources. From the viewpoints of the stable supply of energy and the global environmental protection during the future, it can be said that highly effective usages of waste matter as the recycling type energy resource and unused resources of low-rank coal, extra heavy oil, and oil shale are the most crucial issue. For example, the electric power plants are set up in the incineration processing of around 60 percent of the wastes, but the thermal efficiency is around 10 percent on the average. This is as low as around one fourth to one fifth of that of the latest power plant. When introducing the high-efficiency electric power plant into heat recovery processing of concerned waste incinerators, the electric power of around 34.7 billion kilowatt-hour is generated and it indeed corresponds to around 4 percent a year of the power demand of the electric power industry or one second of the amounts of hydraulic power plant. If the latest ones were introduced into all municipal solid waste, indeed 7 percent of all power demand should be covered. It is possible to contribute to energy conservation and the global environmental safeguards greatly. Development of the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generation of various gasifying methods has been preceded in the world, and this technology enables high-efficiency generation of waste matter and each unused resource. This paper outlines the each combustion technology of high temperature gas turbine for the IGCC developed in the world as one of the high-efficiency power generation systems those could be applied to the gasification melting furnace technologies of solid waste and each unused resource, and BFG (blast furnace gas) fired gas turbine.
