Minister for Coal Pralhad Joshi recently chaired a review meeting for the coal gasification projects with focus of the projects on coal gas being a ‘chemical feedstock’ rather than an ‘energy commodity’.
“Chaired a review meeting on surface coal gasification projects of Coal India. Have directed CIL to develop 6 coal gasification plants with 10 mtpa coal capacity. This will promote cleaner use of coal while shifting it from an energy commodity to a chemical feedstock,” the minister said following the meeting on May 12.
While the project at the existing Dankuni Coal Complex is under development, other projects in the pipeline are: Utkarsh, Shilpanchal Pariyojona, Ashoka and Mahamaya surface coal gasification projects, Coal India said in its presentation to the minister.
Utkarsh is a project being undertaken by Western Coalfields Ltd in Chandrapur area having capacity of 1 mtpa capacity.
Shilpanchal project is located at West Bengal having 1 mtpa capacity. Ashoka, located at Jharkhand, have a capacity of 2.5 mtpa capacity.
South Eastern Coalfields has already started work of surface coal gasification at Mahamaya open cast mine at Bhatgaon in Chhattisgarh having 1.5 mtpa capacity.
Projects and Development India Ltd, a PSU, was engaged for pre-feasibility study and preparation of pre-feasibility report for the project.
In addition, Talcher Fertilisers Ltd is setting up a 2.5 mt coal gasification unit along with its fertiliser plant.
Initially, it has been planned to set up various gasification projects wherein Coal India will take care of mining of coal and marketing of the product and gasification cum product conversion plant will be set up through various contract basis.
This story is from the May 2021 edition of Coal Insights.
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