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COAL
SOURCE: IGT
IGT is actively participating
FIGURE 1
SCHEMATIC OF U-GAS PROCESS
in several programs
with companies in the United States and abroad
to demonstrate and commercialize the U-GAS
process. In 1992, IGT signed an agreement with
a company in China to design and build the first
commercial U-GAS plant in China. The 800-ton
per day
plant will produce 120 million standard
cubic feet of low-BTU fuel gas daily. This gas will
be used to generate heat for coke ovens, thereby
freeing the coke oven gas for use as town gas.
That plant is nearing completion in Shanghai,
People's Republic of China, and is about to un
dergo shakedown. The facility involves eight
2.3-
meter diameter U-GAS gasifiers.
Licensing Agreements
In 1994, IGT entered a joint venture with the Shan
ghai Coking and Chemical Plant General, of Shan
ghai Pacific Chemical Group Company, to own
and operate Shanghai Zhihai Gasification Tech
nology Development Ltd. (SGT). The company
will make advanced technologies in gasification,
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coal-gas purification, and the enhancement of
fuel-gas heating value. The agreement makes
SGT the sole licensee of IGT's U-GAS coal
gasification technology in China. The company
will provide customers in China and other
regions of Asia with technical consultation, tech
nology transfer, and process design services.
The Finnish company Enviropower Inc. is also a
licensee of U-GAS. The company is now in
volved in negotiations for use of the process for
the Eurotherme Project in Denmark.
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GOVERNMENT
DOE ISSUES REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS
OF INTEREST IN DISSEMINATING CCTs
The United States Department of Energy (DOE),
Office of Fossil Energy (FE), issued in November
THE SYNTHETIC FUELS REPORT, JANUARY 1995