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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. tonnes of high-ranked coal. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. Source: IER. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Regal Resources Limited, an Australia-based developer of an Underground Coal to Liquids (UCTL) process to convert low rank brown/coal lignite into hydrocarbon and gas products ( earlier post ), has signed a Farm-In Agreement with Greenpower Energy Limited through its wholly owned subsidiary MOL Gippsland Pty Ltd (MOL).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Advanced Gasifier and Water-Gas Shift Technologies for Low-Cost Coal Conversion to High-Hydrogen Syngas.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy Ltd. announced the completion and start-up of its fifth underground coal gasifier at Chinchilla, Australia ( earlier post ). This represents the final phase in the technological development of Linc Energy’s UCG technology prior to its commercial roll-out.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla will combine this with its diesel exhaust technology to create a low-cost, novel system that doubles as a device to extract potable water from diesel and other internal combustion exhaust. The heat recovered could serve to preheat boiler feed water, thus providing an energy savings.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. Topic 1: Novel, non-precious metal hydrogen separation. Topic 1: Novel, non-precious metal hydrogen separation.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

In August 2012, coal produced 39% of US electricity, up from a low of 32% in April 2012, when the natural gas share of generation equaled that of coal. The August coal share of generation is still notably lower than the 50% annual average over the 1990-2010 period. Other plants use PRB coal transported by rail.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Using bituminous coal from southern Wyoming, the Medicine Bow facility will produce 11,600 barrels per day of very low sulfur gasoline using GE gasification technology and methanol?to?gasoline The plant, once built, will be the first commercial?scale The facility will convert one ton of coal into two barrels of traditionally oil?based

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MARCH 22, 2010

CS CSG (Australia) Pty Ltd, a 50/50 joint venture company owned by Shell and a subsidiary of PetroChina, has entered into an agreement to buy Australia-based Arrow Energy Limited, a coal seam gas company, for A$4.70 Coal seam gas is a form of natural gas trapped in coal beds by water and ground pressure. billion (US$3.2

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MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. Earlier post.). —White and Gray.

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Accelergy’s Integrated Coal to Liquids platform is the basis for the Integrated Carbon to Liquids initiative. ICTL incorporates proprietary Accelergy catalytic conversion technologies for what it calls Integrated Coal to Liquids production and A2BE Carbon Capture algae photobioreactor CO 2 recycle technology. Source: Accelergy.

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JUNE 25, 2011

gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. About half of the carbon dioxide is then recirculated back to gasify the coal to coal gas to continue the process.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The lab’s flash Joule heating process, introduced several years ago to produce graphene from any solid carbon source ( earlier post ), has now been applied to three sources of rare earth elements—coal fly ash, bauxite residue and electronic waste—to recover rare earth metals. —Deng et al. —James Tour.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. US coal producers each year discard large amounts of moisture-laden fines (small, coarse coal particles) that are typically deposited in containment ponds or impoundments as a slurry. Coal recovery from the sludge was greater than 97%.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Australia’s Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer-Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas’ proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project. Additionally, the Clinton coal fluidizes well.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

GE and Shenhua have agreed to form an industrial coal gasification joint venture to advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” technology solutions in China. The new company combines GE’s expertise in industrial gasification technologies with Shenhua’s expertise in coal gasification and coal-fired power generation.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The US DOE is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0001051 ) projects for up to $10 million in awards to target technological advancements to lower the cost of producing hydrogen and/or high-hydrogen syngas from coal for use in 90% carbon capture power generation and/or gasification-based liquid (transportation) fuel production: methanol or diesel.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 Coal seam gas and LNG. Source: QCLNG EIS.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The selected projects will accelerate the advancement of these commercially viable technologies. Winner Water Services Inc. Sharon, PA).

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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JULY 31, 2010

The VärmlandsMetanol plant will be the first full-scale commercial biomass-to-methanol plant. In addition to the methanol, the plant can deliver district-heating water with a thermal duty of 15 MW. note that: The composition of syngas derived from biomass is different from that derived from natural gas and coal.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. The treatment of GTL-derived effluents is complex and challenging.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Trailblazer will be the first new-build carbon capturing coal plant in Texas to receive an air quality permit. Among the environmental features of the project is Tenaska’s commitment to use dry cooling technology to reduce Trailblazer’s water use by 90%. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy ( earlier post ) has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based alkaline fuel cell technology company AFC Energy Plc and its related company, B9 Coal ( earlier post ). New electrolyte immediately restores the performance of the system. Once the 3.5

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The contract is expected to make Air France KLM DGF’s largest European airline customer and lays the groundwork for expansion of this commercial relationship as DGF scales up production at the Louisiana and additional planned SAF production plants to be located in the United States and beyond.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Sasol recently signed a joint venture agreement with Australia-based Origin Energy Limited for the purposes of exploring for coal bed methane (CBM) in Botswana. The water that is produced during the production process is pumped to the surface and treated so it can be disposed of or recycled.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Source: Headwaters. Click to enlarge. Axens DCL process. Source: Axens.

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MAY 21, 2012

Overview of the Bluegas catalytic coal methanation process. billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. Click to enlarge. pure methane).

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APRIL 12, 2009

cents to fund the pilot test of a novel Underground Coal to Liquids (UCTL) process near Melbourne. UCTL is an in situ process that converts brown coal/lignite to liquid hydrocarbon and gas products within the coal seam. The preferred coal type is lignite; the water and impurities aid the UCTL process.

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APRIL 10, 2012

In a project ( DE-FC26-04NT42237 ) funded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has developed a high-pressure dry-solids feed pump that could make gasification economically competitive by improving efficiencies and introducing low-rank Western coal as a viable feedstock option. Source: NETL.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The selected projects are intended to improve the economics of IGCC plants and promote the use of the US’abundant coal resources. For example, a 60%-efficient gasification power plant can cut the formation of carbon dioxide by 40% compared to a typical coal combustion plant, the DOE said.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That report, authored by group co-chairs, Agriculture and Energy Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and EPA Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels targets.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. Two product streams exit this reactor, free fatty acids (mixed with water) and sweet water (glycerol mixed with water). Hydrolysis. Step 1: Hydrolysis. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

This project, managed by FE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), will be partially funded with $450 million from DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The plant will produce power by converting sub-bituminous coal into hydrogen-rich synthesis gas (syngas) and CO 2.

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JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. We now have sales commitments in place for all three of TCEP’s main commercial products—electric power, urea for fertilizer, and CO 2 for enhanced oil recovery—and that is obviously key to getting this project underway.

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