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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Moving IGCC
Forward</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Norman Shilling</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">IGCC Product Line
Manager</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">GE Energy</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Wednesday, July
13</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">9:00 am</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">E40-298</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">[PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM
CHANGE-THE SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 2ND FLOOR OF
E40]</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">GE Energy is a world leader in Integrated
Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) -- a flexible and efficient
technology for converting coal and other hydrocarbons into power and
other valuable products. With its recent acquisition of ChevronTexaco
gasification, GE has combined the power and process blocks to be able
to provide a more fully integrated design and a single-source for
supply of IGCC plants. IGCC utilizes gasification
technology to generate efficient power at significantly reduced
environmental emissions. It then combines gasification
technology's feedstock flexibility and environmental benefits with
combined cycle technology's high efficiency power generation.<br>
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IGCC presents a number of key benefits to industry, including fuel
flexibility, co-generation capability, and reduced environmental
emissions when compared to conventional coal fired boilers.
Because IGCC can use almost any hydrocarbon feedstock and can
accommodate high sulfur levels in the feed, it can use low value
feeds. IGCC can also be used to convert and refuel natural gas
combined cycle power plants into coal-fueled power plants, thereby
providing additional fuel diversification and benefits.<br>
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There are many environmental benefits to IGCC, including reduced air
emissions, reduced water solids discharges, reduced water usage, the
ability to control mercury, and lower carbon dioxide generation
rates. In addition, the byproducts from the IGCC process (slag
and sulfur) are marketable and their sale may generate additional
revenue for the facility. IGCC is also well positioned to
provide future CO2 capture much more economically than combustion coal
power should carbon constraints materialize.<br>
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These benefits, together with continued advances in IGCC due to the
investment that GE is making in both process technology and advanced
IGCC gas turbines, will position this technology as the foremost
technology for cleaner, more economical, and more efficient power
generation.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i>Sponsored by the MIT Future of Coal
Study</i></font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Karen L. Gibson</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Program Assistant</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MIT Laboratory For Energy and the
Environment</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">77 Massachusetts Avenue,
E40-469</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and
FedEx)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368; Fax: 1
(617) 258-6590</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://lfee.mit.edu</font></div>
<div><font
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