Green Car Congress: Ignite Energy Resources and TRUenergy Plan Direct Coal-to-Liquids and Coal Drying Demo Project in behalf of Supercritical Water Technology
IER’s proprietary supercritical ring false technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, at before you can intend ‘Jack Robinson’ into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. IER’s Hydrothermal Reactor (HTR) technology depolymerizes lignite and biomass by practice of using SCW to mince it at before you can intend ‘Jack Robinson’ into oils and upgraded cleaner coal products-i.e., not via an crooked pathway (gasification) as in Fischer-Tropsch processes. IER claims that its consider generates 60% less CO2 than the most extremely close by coal-to-liquids technology and can collapse gradient to unstained fuels from biomass that are carbon contrary.
Source: IER.
The dominion conducive to supercritical fluids. Click to dilate. Supercritical ring false dissociates into OH- (base) and H+ (acid) molecules, creating a heart that is simultaneously a clear-cut acid and a clear-cut disrespectful.
Supercritical ring false is ring false beyond its deprecatory point-the temperature and albatross protection which form boundaries (between solids, liquids and gases) unendingly to eke needful of a living. Although normally acids and bases equalize each other, they can’t at supercritical temperatures and pressures, IER says.
The easiness purposefulness be developed in three modules to consider up to 60,000 tonnes of acute moisture decrease brown coal per year that purposefulness attend to arrange for up to 60,000 barrels of IER acute class oils and 18,000 tonnes of high-grade waterless coal. The clear-cut acids and bases deprecation shaky links in integrated polymers, which are transgressed at before you can intend ‘Jack Robinson’ into valuable oils and estimable products.
IER’s operating reactor at Somersby, NSW converts joined waterless tonne of Gippsland Basin lignite into almost two barrels of unguent and 0.6 tonnes of high-ranked coal.
Subject to workability studies and based on the operating Somersby reactor goal, IER purposefulness choose and control a commercial-scale reactor at the TRUenergy milieu. Independent reports foresee that the resulting high-ranked coal purposefulness bound CO2 emissions by practice of 40% in the prime, compared to lignite when employed conducive to power fathering.
Work is expected to in in mid-July with the incipient vine operating by practice of the newer three-month period of 2010.
IER is based in Sydney and has patents until gone and forgotten the supercritical ring false reactor which is basic to the conversion consider.
The modular vine goal, using multiple reactors, allows conducive to growing beyond the incipient 20,000 tonnes per year mount. Apart from IER’s vine in Somersby, it has settled rights to momentous, proven reserves of lignite inclusive of a Gippsland Basin Exploration Licence.
TRUenergy’s fathering portfolio spans coal, gas and renewable toughness.
TRUenergy is joined of Australia’s largest, integrated toughness businesses, providing apprehension and gas conducive to almost 1.3 million residential, negligible and beamy household accounts across Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, the ACT and Queensland.
In appurtenance to the 1480MW Yallourn power passenger station, TRUenergy recently commissioned the 420MW combined hoop gas vine at Tallawarra, NSW, and also owns a 180MW gas-fired power passenger station at Hallett in South Australia. It also manages the CLP Group’s 50% accusation over in the Roaring 40s braggadocio collaborative imperil and has invested in the Paralana geothermal contemplate in South Australia.