Research Priorities

Three Key Breakthrough Directions

(1) IGCC/cogeneration system and its key technologies: to investigate on the key technologies for the gasification of pressurized dense-phase transport bed and the technology for the combustor of the heavy duty gas turbine driven by gas of medium and low calorific value; to study the inherent CO2 capture and gasification technology; to investigate the new IGCC/ cogeneration technology and CCS optimization and integration technology, and to establish infrastructures for the new generation of clean coal energy power systems, ensuring independent research and development of the key IGCC/generation unit, and the complete engineering projects and the system integration.

(2) Circulating fluidized bed combustion technology: to develop new types of ultra (super) critical CFB boilers and their technological design, and to master the thermal matching characteristics of boilers with large capacity and high parameters; to remove the key technological bottlenecks for supercritical and ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed boilers with system-level solutions provided; to develop key technologies for oxygen-enriched combustion of semi-coke/coal circulating fluidized beds, and to make breakthroughs in organic coupling technology between combustion and thermal pyrolysis for the purpose of realizing system integration of clean, efficient combustion technology and co-conversion technology.

(3) Advanced light power technology: to make breakthroughs in bottleneck technologies including the “small size effect” and the “scale effect” of light gas turbines as well as the design of flexible rotor dynamics; to establish the design systems of small turbofan engines and gas turbines for vehicles; to create a basic complete parts and whole mechanism experiment platform for light gas turbines so as to achieve the integrated innovation of the whole machine, which can endow China with the capability to carry out independent research and development of light gas turbines.

Five Key Cultivation Orientations

(1) Distributed energy supply systems complemented by multiple energies: to study the key technologies of combined heating and cooling and power driven by waste power heat, and to build a distributed power supply system based on the integrated energy system; to make a breakthrough in the bottleneck technology of thermochemical power generation with solar energy, to create a system integrating and optimizing method that includes multiple complementary energies, and to provide system-level solutions.

(2) Key technologies of new gas turbines: to study non-phase change passive cooling technology, and to improve the technology relating to the contra-rotating ram-jet compressor and the contra-rotating turbine operated under new principles; to study how to integrate the contra-rotating ram-jet technology and the non-phase change passive cooling technology in the new gas turbine; to complete the prototype development of the new gas turbine.

(3) Wind power technology: to study the technology of wind turbine blade air foil family with a wide range of applications, wind farm coupling and optimized design; to develop a three-dimensional design method and system for large wind turbine blades; to develop a new blade series, such as efficient, new style and new concept smart wind power blades; to carry out research on micro-site-selection and optimized design of wind farms.

(4) Technology of solar energy thermal utilization: to study the solar fuel conversion technology; to investigate the design of power generation system complemented by solar energy and fossil fuel thermochemistry as well as its integration and optimization method; to set up the engineering demonstration of slot-styled solar thermo-chemical power generation systems; and to integrate 135~300MW of hybrid power plant based on a new power generation system constituted by a slot-styled solar energy collecting plant and coal-firing unit.

(5) Technology for large-scale storage of compressed air energy: to focus on developing the new technology for large-scale storage of compressed air energy and the technology of thermal storage/cooling storage; to try to make a breakthrough in the key technology for the large-scale compressed air energy storage/thermal storage system; and to implement the system integration and the engineering demonstrations of 10MW and 100MW scale air energy storage/thermal storage systems.