US ENCOAL® Mild Coal Gasification to Oil Plant CCT | BioEnergy Lists: Gasifiers & Gasification
This dispatch is to introduce the Encoal (R) Coal-to-Oil project, sponsored by the US DOE.
DOE reports on this Coal-to-Liquid demonstration project are available, but only in PDF format, which is difficult for us to manage.
Via separate dispatches, we will transmit links to those DOE files, but, from the link enclosed herein, we present an excerpt, with a comment following:
"US ENCOAL® Mild Coal Gasification to Oil Plant CCT
Submitted by Tom Miles on Fri, 2008-10-24 18:23
Last updated October 24, 2008
US ENCOAL® Mild Coal Gasification to Oil Plant CCT
George R. Brigliadoro , SURE NRG LLC, October 2008
The Encoal Plant Process 100% of the Coal to Clean Energy Leaving Zero Leftover Wasted or Hazardous Materials
1. Produces ½ Barrel of Oil Per Ton of Coal
2. Produces ½ Ton of High Rank Coal Per Ton of Low Rank Coal
3. Can Process 100% of Used Tire Rubber
4. Produces 600 Barrels of Light Crude Oil and 400 Tons of Carbon Black from 1,000 Tons of Tires
(We had earlier suggested that discarded tires could be a co-feed, with coal, for an appropriately-designed coal-to-liquid fuel facility, and cited some references to that effect. This citation seems to further affirm that assertion.- JtM)
Engineering is Complete to Produce 15,000 to 30,000 Tons Per Day
1. Producing up to 15,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day and 15,000 Tons of High Rank Coal Per Day
2. A 1,000 Ton Per Day Plant is for Sale
3. The Engineering fore 15,000 to 30,000 Tones Per Day is also Available
4. Technology License Agreements are Available
5. Personal are Available to Assist in Construction, Engineering and Plant Start-UP"
Mike, this represents another opportunity for coal to serve both our economic need for a domestic supply of affordable liquid fuel, and our environmental need to clean up and recycle a type of "waste" - used auto tires - that have not previously presented a truly attractive, or economically productive, option for doing so.
Coal-to-Oil, as we've been asserting, could, and should, be a "Green" that benefits both our economy and our environment, and it should be developed and promoted as such.