Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #5299093
 
We had earlier called your attention to the Kentucky "H-Coal", coal-to-liquid fuel conversion, project.
 
Some excerpts, comment following:
 
"Title: The H-Coal Pilot Plant and the Breckinridge Project
Author: Wigglesworth, T.H.
Date: May, 1982
Journal: Proceedings of the American Petroleum Institute; Volume 61; Conference 47; NY, NY. May 1982
Organization: Ashland Synthetic Fuels, Ashland, KY
 
Abstract:
 
A large coal-liquefaction pilot plant is in operation at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, expanding on the H-Coal technology. The pilot plant operated very successfully during 1981, confirming research yield data on eastern bituminous coal, demonstrating operability of the process, and resulting in a significant accumulation of engineering data. Ashland Synthetic Fuels, Inc., and Bechtel Petroleum, Inc., are developing the Breckinridge Project, a commercial coal-liquefaction plant proposed for Breckinridge County, Kentucky, based on the H-Coal technology."
 
So, Ashland and Bechtel operated a coal-to-liquid fuel conversion facility "very successfully during 1981", and the "operability of the process" was demonstrated..
 
Whatever happened, do you suppose, in the ensuing quarter century, to the "commercial coal-liquefaction plant" that was "proposed for Breckinridge County, Kentucky" in 1982, as was reported herein to the American Petroleum Institute?