Wednesday, April 11, 2012

North Dakota Coal Story: Nothing To Do With the Bakken

UND's Energy and Environmental Research Center and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have partnered to study ways to make "coal cleaner."

Data points:
  • the joint venture has introduced a prototype gasification system that uses dry coal
  • current process requires large quantities of water
  • new system burns coal more efficiently, more cleanly according to spokesman
  • coal is pulverized and kept under pressure to behave like a fluid
  • no additional water is used
  • 2015: will start looking for commercial plants worldwide
Back on July 20, 2010, I blogged about New Zealand shipping lignite to North Dakota to test a coal-drying process.

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