Since the energy crisis in the fall, 1973, the use of coal resources has been considered as the effective energy source from the standpoint of national energy security.
Usually the coal fired boilers have more environmental impacts than the oil/gas fired ones, so we need new technical process which has the least environmental impacts. The two types of new process are considered.
The first one is the SO
x/NO
x removal process from the stack gas of the conventional coal fired boilers.
The second one, the subject of this paper, is the integrated gas/steam combined cycle system with coal gasification, which has now being developed in USA, Europe and Japan.
At present, this intergrated coal gasifier combined cycle system is not economical in comparison with conventional boiler because of its low efficiency.
But in near future, it is expected that this new system will be the most economical one and have the least environmental effect. In order to realize this new system, there are three major keys which must be developed, the advanced type coal gasifier, the hot gas clean up technique and the new type of gas turbine with high inlet gas temperature 1, 300°C above.
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