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Terra Systems, Inc. Asian Expansion
Terra Systems, Inc. (TSYI.PK) is pleased to announce the company's expansion into Indonesia where it will use its patented coal drying technologies to process Low Rank Lignitic Coal (LRC) into high value, custom formulated briquettes to be sold for power generation throughout Asia. Company President George Ford stated "Coal usage in the US is in decline, but in Asia it is rapidly expanding. This ...
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Efficient Clean Coal Technology
Among a lot of interesting topics being discussed at SETA 2016, reducing emission and improving efficiency in coal fired plants is among a great focus. Mr. Ajit Nambiar, Vice President, Power and Gas Sales, Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore shared a case study to the audience how to optimize combustion using laser absorption spectroscopy technology as the innovative and cost-effective solution developed ...
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Hockfield to urge boost in U.S. energy research funding
MIT President Susan Hockfield will argue for a sharp increase in federal funding for energy-related research during a pair of visits to Washington in the coming week. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, Hockfield will testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which is chaired by Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey. The committee was created last year to ...
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Sequestration and fuel reserves
A technique for trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide deep underground could at the same be used to release the last fraction of natural gas liquids from ailing reservoirs, thus offsetting some of the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. So says a paper to be published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. While so-called “fracking” ...
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Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/SBI-v775/Clean-Coal-Technologies-Trends-Worldwide-6447642/ Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and ...
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CIL Enters Power Generation Business in Cooperation With NLC
CIL (Coal India Ltd) plans to enter power generation business together with NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation). To start with, a thermal power plant of 2,000-megawatt capacity will be launched at pithead of any of the mines that are located in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd’s command area (in Orissa). After massive supply of coal to public as well as private sectors to generate power, the union coal ...
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For all the Li in China
Coal from China could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. Lithium is an essential component of rechargeable batteries used almost ubiquitously in mobile gadgets such as phones, laptops, tablet computers and in many electric vehicles. Worldwide annual consumption ...
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Lighting a Fire in Indian Clean Coal Industry: The 2nd Annual World Clean Coal Week India Focus 2013
Coal, the world's most abundant fossil fuel, plays a vital role in the world energy mix. It supplies 24 percent of the total global energy and 40 percent of global electricity. In Asia, coal accounts for almost 75 percent of electricity generation nationally, and is most likely to remain the principal fuel source in the future. As a prospering country with world’s 5th largest coal reserve, ...
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Govt. to allot Critical Coal Blocks to increase Coal Production in India
The Indian coal ministry plans to allot 41 critical blocks of coal with a joint coal reserve of 16 Billion Tons (These blocks are in Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Chattisgarh). Furthermore, the ministry has already started inviting applications from private power firms and PSUs regarding this. Nearly 15 blocks will be allotted to private players such as Reliance Energy, Tata Power, and ...
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SwRI Receives U.S. DOE Award to Advance Clean Coal Technology
Southwest Research Institute and industry collaborator Thar Energy LLC have received $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate a novel, supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle using pressurized oxy-combustion, a process that uses pure oxygen instead of air as the primary oxidant. The contract award is one of eight given by DOE to ...
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Asia will account for 70% of incremental energy demand
Today at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013, Lin Boqiang, Director, China Center of Energy Economics Research, said that 70% of global incremental energy demand over the next 20 years will come from Asia. Commenting on recent overseas embassies made by Chinese government officials, Lin said that, due to China’s limited domestic energy supplies, Chinese diplomatic efforts will ...
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Carbon capture and storage needed for new coal-fired power stations
The Environment Agency has recommended that no new coal-fired power stations should be built unless they can capture and store carbon emissions. In its response to the Government’s consultation on carbon capture and storage, the Environment Agency called for faster progress on proving carbon capture and storage technology on a commercial scale. Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment ...
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ADA-ES Signs $19 Million Contract with DOE to Scale up Clean Coal Technology
Solid-Sorbent-Based Carbon Capture Technology Is Being Developed to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Power Generating and Industrial PlantsLITTLETON, Colo.- ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADES) (“ADA”) today announced that it has signed a new contract with the Department of Energy (DOE) to continue development of clean coal technology to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and ...
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IEA sees China lead the way in developing new cleaner coal technologies
”China’s coal sector has made remarkable progress over the last decade, fuelling rapid economic growth and bringing a better quality of life for China’s citizens”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), last week in Beijing at the launch of the new publication, Cleaner Coal in China. Mr. Tanaka noted that China’s coal production now provides more energy to ...
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Thailand’s Energy Ministry vows for green power technology
Green technology is important to the success in dealing with challenges faced by Thailand and other ASEAN countries in securing energy security and sustainability and that the event like SETA 2016 will help these countries access to the required technology, Dr Areepong Bhoocha-oom, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy of Thailand, told the audience of the keynote session at SETA 2016. ...
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FY 2008 Budget Cut $100 Million for Coal to Liquid Fuel Project
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (ENS) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell is asking President George W. Bush to restore funding in the federal budget for development of the nation’s first plant designed to convert waste coal into zero-sulfur diesel fuel. A promised, $100 million, no-interest loan to help with construction and startup costs for the $800 million plant in Schuylkill County was removed ...
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China, US seek `clean coal` agreement as industry struggles
U.S. and China officials took a major step Tuesday toward an agreement to advance "clean coal" technologies that purport to reduce the fuel's contribution to climate change - and could offer a potential lifeline for an industry that's seen its fortunes fade. The agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and China's National Energy Administration would allow the two nations to share their ...
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Allete, Xcel Energy ink new 5-year contract for existing wind farms
Allete Clean Energy, a Minnesota-based independent power producer and supplier, has recently approved a new 5-year power sale agreement between its Viking wind farms in southern Minnesota and Xcel Energy, Inc., whose original 15-year PPAs will expire in December 2018. As per an official press release, Allan S. Rudeck Jr., President, Allete Clean Energy, said that the company is delighted to ...
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Asian and Pacific Nations Sign Clean Energy Pact
MANILA, Philippines (ENS) - Government leaders from across Asia and the Pacific have agreed to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and promote cleaner technologies that address air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The energy pact signed by the leaders of the 10 member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, and its dialogue partners calls for a concerted regionwide ...
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ADA-ES to Present at the Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference and the Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor Summit
ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADES) today announced that Michael D. Durham, President and CEO and Mark McKinnies, Senior Vice President and CFO will address institutional investors at two investment conferences scheduled as follows: Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM ET at The Omni Berkshire Place in New York. Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor ...
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