Research & Development

Governor Bobby Jindal | State of Louisiana

 

The following is excerpted from Louisiana Gov. Jindal's web site, linked above:

 

"The renewable synthetic diesel fuel produced by Dynamic Fuel (a Tyson Foods - Syntroleum JV - JtM) will be sold in the U.S. within the existing diesel fuel distribution system.  Its ultra-clean properties are expected to make it a popular choice for conventional diesel producers to use as a blending fuel to help conventional diesel meet minimum government emission standards.
 
About Syntroleum (NASDAQ:SYNM - News)
Syntroleum Corporation owns the Syntroleum® Process for converting synthesis gas derived from biomass, coal, natural gas and other carbon-based feedstocks, and the Bio-Synfining™ technology for converting animal fat and vegetable oil feedstocks into synthetic liquid hydrocarbons. The Company plans to use its technology to develop and participate in synthetic and renewable fuel projects utilizing the Company’s technology in a number of global locations."

 

And, we submit this, from India:

 

 

An excerpt:

 

"JSPL (Jindal Steel) said the project requires 30 MTPA washed coal to produce 80,000 barrels per day (4.0 MMTPA) crude, using Indirect Coal Liquification technology developed by Lurgi of Germany for the first time in India. It added that the middlings and rejects would be used for generating 1,350MW power."

 

(Note: Once the coal is liquefied to "crude", by the Lurgi process, it is converted to diesel via Fischer-Tropsch, according to reports - JtM)

 

 

Oh, one more excerpt about the Jindal Steel project:

 

"The proposed technology is extremely environment friendly, as the crude produced by the process will have very low Polyaromatics. Carbon dioxide will be captured and used in fertilizer industries/for inert purposes. The ash generated will be used for road building, brick making, cement manufacturing and back filling of mines. The technology involves almost 100% recovery of sulphur as elemental sulphur, which will be used in fertilizer industry."

 

Again as we've been saying, the by-products of coal conversion, the "pollutants", should be seen as bonuses, not as deficits. If we put our minds to it, we can actually use them.

We had earlier informed you of the separate Tata and Jindal Steel consortiums' coal-to-liquid fuel ventures in India.

 

The Indian government, apparently, views coal liquids to be so strategically valuable that they will not allow coal from the major deposits they have assigned to liquid conversion efforts to be diverted to other uses.

 

An excerpt:

 

“Tata, JSPL cannot divert surplus coal from CTL projects

 

NEW DELHI: Tata Sons-Sasol joint venture Strategic Energy Technology Systems and Jindal Steel and Power will not be able to divert surplus coal from the promotional mining blocks allotted for $18 billion projects to convert coal into liquid petroleum, sources said."

 

ScienceDirect - Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis : Peat semicoking and hydrocracking

 

First, the excerpt:

"Abstract

This work deals with thermochemical conversion of peat into solvent-soluble oiland volatile gaseous products by using pyrolysis and catalytical hydrocracking methods..."

Now, we've told you how sub-bituminous (i.e., sub-WV) brown coal lignite is being converted to liquid fuels and chemicals in various places around the world.

Here, from researchers in Denmark, Greenland and Estonia, we have research detailing how you can dig brown muck out of a peat bog - stuff that ain't even close yet to being just lignite - and convert it into liquids for fuel and etc.

And, as luck would have it, at this time of year, and as we're still trying to verify/document, the Irish are at work on the same thing.

Now, seriously, if you can "do it" with sopping-wet European peat, you can certainly do it, better and more productively, with hard, dry WV bituminous - not to mention with all the cellulose that can be grown on our hills and in our flue gas-cleaning algal bioreactors.