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Siemens Supplying Coal Gasifiers to Australia for First Time
17 June 2008
Australian Energy Company (AEC) Ltd., an independent project development company, has acquired a license for two 500 MW coal gasifiers from Siemens Energy. These are Siemens’s first gasifier sales in Australia.
The two gasifiers are destined for a fertilizer plant in Latrobe Valley, Victoria, where they are to be used to convert lignite to ammonia. In an adjacent plant the ammonia will be used to produce urea. After commissioning in 2012, the plant will have an annual production capacity of approximately 1.2 million tonnes of urea.
The fertilizer production plant is located in Victoria in the vicinity of the Loy Yang mine and will use the extensive lignite available there as feedstock for fertilizer production. As of 2015, a second phase of the project makes provision for the carbon dioxide generated during fertilizer production to be transported via a pipeline for storage in the carbon dioxide dumps in Bass Strait off the south coast of Australia.
Siemens offers entrained flow gasification technology with a cooling screen. The technology can be used for a wide range of fuels and is characterized by high conversion rates, high availability and low maintenance.
Earlier this month, Siemens announced the pending delivery of the first two of five 500 MW coal gasifiers to Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd. (SNCG) in China. (Earlier post.) The coal gasifiers, each with a thermal capacity of 500MW, are destined for the Ningxia coal-to-polypropylene (NCPP) plant in Ningxia Province in northwest China. (Earlier post.)
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Posted by: arnold | June 17, 2008 at 05:26 PM
Ammonia production via the Haber process requires hydrogen, meaning steam reforming of the syngas to H2 and CO2. If the gasification system captures all the carbon as CO2 and sends it down the pipeline, in principle the system could be expanded to export hydrogen as a carbon-neutral fuel product.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | June 17, 2008 at 08:27 PM
Australia has plenty of uranium, so they should build nuclear power plants.
After all, why is it perfectly acceptable to predicate operation of coal-burning power plants or other facilities on permanent storage of billions of tons of carbon dioxide, but nuclear waste is considered totally unacceptable?
Posted by: Alex Kovnat | June 18, 2008 at 04:51 AM
IMO they should have located that plant with the intention of using the CO2 for EOR.
Posted by: GreenPlease | June 18, 2008 at 06:39 AM
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Really we need to hear about the "ocean CO2 dumps" in bass straight. CCS?
No idea.
But these brown coal deposits are the current source for Victoria's states elecricity generation.
And likely to be the first to be phased out as having unviable under emissions targeting.