$1 mn for researchers to help India develop cleaner coal
The US has awarded over $1 million to a team of researchers who would help India develop advanced technologies to clean coal.
By PTI |
WASHINGTON: The US has awarded over $1 million to a team of researchers who would help India develop advanced technologies to clean coal, which would enhance energy production and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The assisstance was conferred upon by the State Department to a project team consisting of researchers from three leading institutes -- Virginia Tech, Indian School of Mines and the University of Kentucky, an official release said.
"It has been shown that use of beneficiated (cleaned) coals can increase thermal efficiencies and can thereby reduce CO2 emissions by up to 15 per cent," said Roe-Hoan Yoon of Centre for Advanced Separation Technology at Virginia Tech.
"By using state-of-the art technologies relating to coal quality, boiler and generator design, instrumentation and control, high-voltage distribution system, India could reduce CO2 emissions to 45 per cent of its present level," he said, citing an International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Professor Sumantra Bhattacharya of Indian School of Mines said: "In 2005-2006, India produced 380 million tonnes of coal, but only 17 million tonnes were beneficiated coals delivered to 12 power stations."
He suggested that since it was difficult and costly to remove ash-forming minerals from the Indian coal, "the researchers will (have to) develop low-cost dry beneficiation technologies that can remove well-liberated, easy-to-reject rocks or shales".
One of such processes had already been tested successfully in the US at pilot scale under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy (DOE), the release said, adding a new method of dry cleaning finer coal will be explored in the India project.
The assisstance was conferred upon by the State Department to a project team consisting of researchers from three leading institutes -- Virginia Tech, Indian School of Mines and the University of Kentucky, an official release said.
"It has been shown that use of beneficiated (cleaned) coals can increase thermal efficiencies and can thereby reduce CO2 emissions by up to 15 per cent," said Roe-Hoan Yoon of Centre for Advanced Separation Technology at Virginia Tech.
"By using state-of-the art technologies relating to coal quality, boiler and generator design, instrumentation and control, high-voltage distribution system, India could reduce CO2 emissions to 45 per cent of its present level," he said, citing an International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Professor Sumantra Bhattacharya of Indian School of Mines said: "In 2005-2006, India produced 380 million tonnes of coal, but only 17 million tonnes were beneficiated coals delivered to 12 power stations."
He suggested that since it was difficult and costly to remove ash-forming minerals from the Indian coal, "the researchers will (have to) develop low-cost dry beneficiation technologies that can remove well-liberated, easy-to-reject rocks or shales".
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One of such processes had already been tested successfully in the US at pilot scale under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy (DOE), the release said, adding a new method of dry cleaning finer coal will be explored in the India project.
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