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Temat: Canadian coal gasification project set to start
18 March 2009 -- Alberta is playing host to a deep underground coal gasification demonstration project. The Canadian province claims the demonstration is among the first of its kind in North America and is possibly the deepest underground coal gasification ever conducted in the world.The Government of Alberta, through the Alberta Energy Research Institute, is providing $8.83 million (US$6.7 mn) to the $30 million (US$23.6 mn) project with Swan Hills Synfuels of Calgary. Swan Hills expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta's coal resources, with the future potential of using the coal seams for carbon capture and storage.
Deep underground coal gasification involves injecting oxygen and saline water into the coal to turn it into synthesis gas. This gas can be used as fuel for power generation, further processed into gas for home heating, or for other products like hydrogen, methanol or transportation fuels.
Underground coal gasification does not use fresh water in its operation. Underground coal gasification is used at depths where conventional coal mining is not economic or currently possible.
The project in north-central Alberta aims to develop a commercial operation that produces synthesis gas for power generation. The deep formations—in some cases 1,000 meters deep—could also store carbon dioxide after the coal is turned into gas.
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/356559/6/ARTC...
A u nas ciagle mysla, kombinuja, zastanawiaja sie.
Moze sensowniej byloby wejsc w jakies zwiazki z kanadyjskimi fachowcami i finalizowac projekt u nas.
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