3. Gasification uses 30 to 40 percent less water to produce electric power from coal compared to other coal-based generation technologies. As water becomes a scarce and valuable resource in many parts ...

Underground coal gasification (UCG) is the gasification of coal in-situ, which involves drilling boreholes into the coal and injecting water/air or water/oxygen mixtures. It combines an extraction ...

Five years ago, natural gas prices were soaring and it seemed there would be some kind of concerted approach to managing our carbon emissions. At that time underground coal gasification (UCG, also ...

Hyderabad: Union coal minister G. Kishan Reddy has said that reforms in the coal sector will yield results only when they ...

Duke Energy, the Charlotte, NC-based electric and gas utility conglomerate, brought online a 618 megawatt coal gasification power plant in Edwardsport, Indiana, closing the door on a half-decade long ...

Gasification, as opposed to combustion, is the most thermally efficient and cleanest way to convert the energy content of coal into electricity, hydrogen, clean fuels, and value-added chemicals. The ...

Coal remains the most stable low-cost source of energy, but its lower qualities challenge users to meet stringent environmental regulations. The first step in any modification or fuel switching of a ...

Phibro—an independent commodity merchant company based in Stamford, Conn.—through its affiliate Philipp Brothers Fertilizer, recently announced that it is acquiring a clean coal gasification plant ...

The price of coal supplied for gasification should be kept at a notified price lower than that for coal supplied to the power sector. It can be charged on extraction basis so as to create certainty in ...

The Sindh Coal Authority is striving to woo private investment to finance the country’s first coal-to-gas project to initially produce 100 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to 200mmcfd of synthetic ...

Axis Energy and Reliance Industries emerged as top bidders in coal block auctions focused on gasification, cleaner fuels and ...

Axis Energy and Reliance Industries emerged as top bidders in India’s latest coal block auction, targeting UCG-capable blocks ...