Shanxi to turn coal into clean energy
April 3, 2014 Category Automotive Metals & Minerals, Minerals
Energy officials in Shanxi province are considering creating a coal chemical base to turn the fossil fuel into clean energy. “As air quality keeps deteriorating in most regions of China, Shanxi must advance the establishment of the coal chemical modernization base in the province’s northern area. The move will increase the province’s supply of coal-transformed gas and oil to the rest of the country rather than just coal or coal-generated power. Meanwhile, the base will make full use of lean coal, which used to be waste. All in all, the move will play a very significant part in easing air pollution through providing clean energy to North China,” Zhu Xiaoming, Director of Shanxi’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, said. The coal-rich province has long been a major energy supplier to neighboring regions including Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. Coal output and reserves accounted for about a quarter of the country’s total. “We may not change China’s coal-dominated energy structure in the short term but we can make the energy cleaner and more efficient,” said Li Jinping, Chairman of the board of Lu’an Group in Shanxi province. Zhu added the base for coal chemical modernization in the province’s north will expand output from coal to gas, oil, hydrocarbons and other processed products. Conditions are said to be perfect for setting up the base. The province’s north has a coal reserve of 95 billion tons, making it a leading coal base in China. The reserve centers on lean coal, an ideal material for coal gasification. The output of lean coal can exceed 200 million tons per year by the end of 2015, officials say. Large areas of unoccupied land and massive water supplies, crucial to coal processing, are also available. Once established, each year the base will produce 30 billion cubic meters of coal gas, 6 million tons of coal-liquefied oil, 1.2 million tons of coal-converted olefin and 1 million tons of coal-converted ethylene glycol. The base will be established once it is approved by the central government.
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