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STATUS OF COAL PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994)
COMMERCIAL AND R&D PROJECTS (Continued)
Plans are being made to eventually integrate a fuel cell module with the transport gasifier during the second year of operation. The
capacity of the fuel cell to be tested initially is set at 100 kW. Provision has been made in the site layout of the PSDF to phase in a
multi-MW fuel cell module with commercial stacks utilizing more than 80 percent of gases from the transport gasifier.
Installation is scheduled to be completed by fall of 1995 for the transport reactor and March 1996 for the APFBC. Two years of
operation are planned.
Project Cost: $157 million 80% by U.S. Department of Energy
WUJING - TRIGENERATION PROJECT Shanghai
Coking and Chemical Plant (C-620)
Shanghai Coking and Chemical Plant (SCCP) is planning a trigeneration project to produce coal-derived fuel gas, electricity, and
steam. The proposed plant will be constructed near the Shanghai Coking and Chemical plant in Wujing, a suburb south of Shan
ghai. SCCP contracted with Bechtel on June 6, 1986 to conduct a technical and economic feasibility study of the project.
The project will consist of coal gasification facilities and other processing units to be installed and operated with the existing coke
ovens in the Shanghai Coking and Chemical Plant. The facility will produce 1.7 million cubic meters per day of 3,800 Kcal per cubic
meter of town gas; 60,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year; 100 metric tons per hour of low pressure steam; and 200,000 metric
tons per year of 99.85 percent purity chemical grade methanol, 50,000 metric tons per year of acetic anhydride, and 50,000 metric
tons per year of cellulose acetate. The project will be constructed in three phases.
In Phase 1, the production plan is further divided into 2 stages. In the first stage, L7 million cubic meters per day of town gas will
be produced. The second stage will produce 200.000 tons per year of methanol.
In November 1991, SCCP and Texaco Development Corporation signed an agreement for Texaco to furnish the gasifier, coal slurry
and methanol systems. SCCP will import other advanced technologies and create foreign joint ventures at later stages for the
production of acetic anhydride, formic acid, cellulose acetate and combined cycle power generation.
In March 1992, a foundation stone laying ceremony was performed at the plant site. In December of 1993, three sets of Air
Separation units, each producing 11,000 cubic meters per hour of 99.6% oxygen, were started up.
pleted by June 1995.
Phase 1 is scheduled to be com
Project Cost: 2 billion yuan
- YIMA CrTY COAL GASIFICATION PROJECT Future
China (C-622)
Fuels. Pty. Ltd.. Henan Provincial Government, and Central Government of
Future Fuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rentech. Inc., has signed a contract to provide engineering design and equipment for a
gas conversion plant to be located near Yima City in Henan Province, China. Funding has been provided by the Australian govern
ment, the Henan Provincial Government, and Central Government of China.
The plant will use Rentech's proprietary technology to convert low-grade coal to gas for more than 03 million homes and a waste
gas as feedstock for a Rentech gas conversion plant designed to produce 545 barrels/day of diesel fuel and waxes. Work under the
contract is expected to be started in early 1995.
YUNNAN LURGI CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS PLANT- Yunnan Province, China (C-625)
In the 1970s, a chemical fertilizer plant was set up in Yunnan province by using Lurgi pressurized gasifiers of 2.7 meter diameter.
The pressurized gasification of a coal water slurry has completed a model test with a coal throughput of 20 kilograms per hour and
achieved success in a pilot unit of 13 tons per hour. The carbon conversion reached 95 percent, with a cold gas efficiency of
66 percent.
For water-gas generation, coke was first used as feedstock. In the 1950s, experiments of using anthracite to replace coke were suc
cessful, thus reducing the production cost of ammonia by 25 to 30 percent. In order to substitute coal briquettes for lump
anthracite, the Beijing Research Institute of Coal Chemistry developed a coal briquetting process in which humate was used as a
binder to produce synthetic gas for chemical fertilizer production. This process has been applied to production.
- YUNNAN PROVINCE COAL GASIFICATION PLANT People's
Republic of China (C-630)
China is building a coal gasification plant in Kunming, Yunnan Province, that will produce about 220,000 cubic meters of coalgas
per day. Joe Ng Engineering of Ontario, Canada has been contracted to design and equip the plant with the help of a $5 million
loan from the Canadian Export Development Corporation.
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SYNTHETIC FUELS REPORT, JANUARY 1995