The members of the Energy Technology practice have core engineering expertise related to the design and operation of advanced power and chemical plants. Specific technologies explored by the practice include supercritical pulverized coal, oxycombustion of coal and gas, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), coal and gas to liquids, and efficiency programs within the power and chemicals industry. Nexant's broad experience with gasification and related technologies, including acid gas removal, sulfur recovery, air separation, gas turbines, combined cycles, and chemical co-production represents a major asset.
A major new clean fossil project for Nexant is the World Bank-sponsored Beijing Trigeneration Project. In 2007, Nexant was awarded a $1.7 million project from the World Bank to promote more efficient use of natural gas in residential and commercial sectors of Beijing through systems that provide electricity, heating, and cooling. In these trigeneration systems, gas turbines, gas-fired internal combustion engines, or microturbines are used to produce power, while the hot turbine or engine exhaust gas is used to provide heating in the winter and to run absorption chillers in the summer. With trigeneration, the residential and commercial sectors in Beijing can avoid the use of coal-fired boilers to provide heating and reduce electricity purchases for cooling. Nexant will assist the World Bank with engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of two trigeneration demonstration projects in Beijing as well as providing required market, technology, and policy analyses.
Current major areas of interest include:
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Tan-Ping Chen
Senior Vice President, Energy Technology
Tel: +1 415 369 1077
Email: tpchen@nexant.com
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