clean-energy.us - case studies - eastman chemical
This will be about as brief as the Subject header. We submit herein further documentation of the potential environmental cleanliness of coal-to-liquid conversion processes.
We have, with references, explained that, when syngas is generated from coal, as the first step in converting coal into liquid fuels and industrial chemicals, the opportunity exists to efficiently remove sulfur entrained in that coal, with the potential to sell the recovered sulfur to chemical manufacturers for use in it's many commercial applications.
We have also documented Eastman Chemical's coal-to-chemicals plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, and how they convert coal there into valuable liquid raw materials, to replace petroleum feed stocks, for multiple chemical and plastics manufacturing processes.
Eastman, according to the following excerpt from the linked article, before manufacturing their products, from syngas generated from coal, first:
"... removes more than 99.9% of the sulfur ... and nearly all of the volatile mercury ... is removed."