Coal, Production, Products and Study

DOE to award $32M for FEED studies for production of rare earths and critical minerals and materials from coal

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2023

Similarly, in 2021, for at least 43 of the 50 CMM, the United States imported more than half its consumption, with no domestic production of 14 CMM. Coal and coal production waste contain a wide variety of valuable rare earth elements that can be converted into clean energy technology components. DE-FOA-0002854 ).

Coal

Coal Production Waste Clean

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The amount of methane released into the atmosphere as a result of coal mining is likely approximately 50% higher than previously estimated, according to research presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The study is one of the first to account for methane leaking from old, abandoned mines.

Coal

Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

SSAB and Fortum explore possibilities for the production of hydrogen-reduced sponge iron in Raahe

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

SSAB and Fortum are launching a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study to explore the possibilities of making hydrogen-reduced sponge iron in SSAB’s Raahe steel plant. million tonnes per annum blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Raahe, Finland; its main products are hot-rolled plate and strip.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Finland Production Coal

Infrastructure bill's coal-sourced "blue" hydrogen worse than combustion, study suggests

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Congressional bipartisan infrastructure bill includes a proposal for hydrogen-production hubs that could use coal as an energy source. But even such allegedly clean hydrogen could produce high levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study published in the journal Energy Science & Engineering.

Coal

Coal Hydrogen Clean Cleaning

Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2022

Russia-based Udokan Copper , the developer of Russia’s largest new copper deposit, outlined scenarios to cut the carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035, bringing the company closer to its ultimate goal of climate neutrality in the long run. In 2021, Udokan Copper invested RUB 764 million (US$11.5

Carbon

Carbon Production Russia 2000

Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

Keliber, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide, has analyzed the CO 2 emissions generated by its future production using two studies. Keliber plans to begin production in 2024. Keliber benefits from an integrated production process.

Carbon

Carbon Chile Australia Emissions

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen—produced through steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas or coal gasification, but with CO 2 capture and storage—is being described as having low or zero carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions, including emissions from developing, processing, and transporting the fuels, are shown in orange.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Gas Coal Exhaust

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Building production facilities in Norway to produce low carbon hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.

Norway

Norway Germany Hydrogen Power

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan

DOE awards $3M to MP Materials for project to extract rare earths from fossil fuel waste streams

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

Kentucky

Kentucky Coal Waste Fuel

Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.

Coal

Coal 2011 Global Emissions

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

In addition to its regional and temporal scope, this study is distinct from earlier LCA literature in four key aspects: This study considers the lifetime average carbon intensity of the fuel and electricity mixes, including biofuels and biogas. This results in significantly lower battery production emissions than in earlier studies.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery

Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2012

Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. Instead of accumulating as peat, which eventually was transformed into coal, the great bulk of plant biomass decayed and was released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Coal

Coal Production IDEA Carbon

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The conceptual designs of each project include an option for up to a $2-million feasibility study. Winner Water Services Inc. Sharon, PA).

Coal

Coal Design West Virginia North Dakota

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2023

These facilities typically use approximately one ton of coal to produce one BBL of hydrocarbons, with a life cycle CO 2 emissions calculation that is slightly worse than equivalent fuels derived from conventional oil refining. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming.

Companies

Companies Fuel Louisiana Asia

CSIRO study finds little to no environmental impact from fracing in Queensland

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2020

A comprehensive three-year scientific study into the air, water and soil impacts of hydraulic fracturing (HF) in coal seam gas (CSG) in Queensland, Australia has found little to no impacts on air quality, soils, groundwater and waterways. —Dr Barrett.

Coal

Coal Water Australia Gas

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Air pollution is costing African countries billions in gross domestic product and can be correlated to a devastating loss in the intellectual development of Africa’s children, the researchers found. The team studied trends in air pollution in Africa to determine impacts on human health and economic development in 54 African countries.

Africa

Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Farag, A.M.,

Sodium

Sodium Water Coal Montana

DOE invests $17.4M in projects to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four projects to move on to a second phase of research in their efforts to advance recovery of rare earth elements (REE) from coal and coal byproducts. The solids are from Northern Appalachian and Central Appalachian bituminous coal seams in West Virginia. Earlier post.) 6 million.

Coal

Coal West Virginia North Dakota Virginia

NYK Line invests in waste-to-biofuel company

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

which has developed its own integrated subcritical-water organic-waste power-generation system (ISOP) system, which decomposes organic substances using subcritical-water-treating technology and ultimately produces green energy products such as biofuels. The products can be reused as green energy products such as bio-coal, biogas (e.g.,

Waste

Waste Companies Water Coal

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

ENEOS Corporation and Origin Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a study on a potential business collaboration for the development of a CO 2 -free hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Australia. Specifically, Origin will focus on use of renewable energy supply and water electrolysis cells for hydrogen production.

Australia

Australia Japan Hydrogen Supplies

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

A Technical Feasibility Study (TFS) for a coal-to-methanol (CTM) plant based on the Arckaringa coal resources in Australia has concluded that CTM could be a viable project capable of augmenting the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Altona Energy’s Arckaringa Clean Energy CTL (coal-to-liquids) and Power Project in South Australia.

Coal

Coal Australia Conversion Asia

Design study for SA underground coal gasification plant underway

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2011

South Africa state-owned power utility Eskom reports that a design study is currently under way for an underground coal gasification (UCG) demonstration plant, which will include a 250,000 Nm 3 /h gas production plant and a 100 MW to 140 MW gas turbine plant. The coal seam lies between 280 m and 300 m deep. Mining Weekly.

Coal

Coal Design South Africa Gas-Electric

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

West Virginia

West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The study is built on previous work by the same research group using a process called chemical looping, which involves adding metal oxide particles in high-pressure reactors to burn fuels without direct contact between air and fuel. But what we are doing is adjusting this decomposition process and making a valuable product from that.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Gas Ohio Gas-Electric

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. Earlier post.).

Coal

Coal Diesel Oil Prices Water

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We are firmly convinced of this, and this is also borne out by this investment, which heralds a new era for steel production in the Ruhr region. As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. —Martina Merz, CEO of thyssenkrupp AG.

Low CO2

Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power

US DOE to award up to $3M for coal-biomass-to-liquid projects

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

The Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000703 ) for the awards is soliciting applications for R&D in two specific Areas of Interest: laboratory scale liquids production and assessment; and a feasibility study for a coal-biomass to liquids facility. Laboratory Scale Liquids Production and Assessment.

Coal

Coal Conversion Commercial Convert

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. Source: PNNL.

Grid

Grid Charging Power Grid California

DOE awards U of North Dakota $2.5M to sample and characterize coal-based resources containing rare earth elements

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

million contract to sample and characterize US coal-based resources containing high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs). The university will also perform a round-robin inter-laboratory study on the analytical methods used to measure the concentration of REEs in US coal-based resources.

North Dakota

North Dakota Coal Universal Transportation

China team optimizes catalytic hydrogenation process to convert coal tar to gasoline and diesel

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2012

Flow diagram of coal tar hydrogenation process. Researchers in China report the production of gasoline and diesel from coal tar via an optimized catalytic hydrogenation using two serial fixed beds, the first with a hydrofining catalyst of MoNi/?-Al million tons of coal tar was further processed. Credit: ACS, Kan et al.

Coal

Coal Gasoline Diesel Hydrogen

Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million project total).

Seattle

Seattle Hydrogen Renewable Fuel

DOE issues $13M funding opportunity for advanced coal gasification systems for power or fuels

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0000784 ) for up to $13 million to support the development of advanced coal gasification systems. AOI 1: Coal Feed Technologies - Low-rank Coal Feed or Coal-woody Biomass Feed Technologies. poplar, pine and hardwoods]).

Coal

Coal Fuel Power Powered

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devised by Professor Yulong Ding and Dr Harriet Kildahl from the University of Birmingham’s School of Chemical Engineering, the system is detailed in an open-access paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 2023.135963. 2023.135963.

Carbon

Carbon Emissions Cleaner Gas-Electric

Understanding the variability of GHG life cycle studies of oil sands production

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Full-fuel-cycle GHG emissions estimates for reformulated gasoline pathways by LCA study. Nominal value of 70 g CO 2 /MJ for combustion emissions is applied evenly across all studies. These include oil sands, enhanced oil recovery, coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids synthetic fuels, and oil shale. Credit: ACS, Brandt 2012.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Production Emissions

Sasol and ITOCHU to partner on green ammonia and hydrogen

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

South Africa

South Africa Hydrogen Green Africa

German researchers boost algal hydrogen production five-fold using metabolic engineering approach

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Production Engine Conversion

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. billion in economic loss was 1.36% of the country’s gross domestic product, according to the report.

Pollution

Pollution India 2019 Boston

Researchers develop microwave-driven, energy-efficient process for magnesium production

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

However, its current production through ore reduction using the conventional Pidgeon process emits large amounts of CO 2 and particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). The hot reaction zone is either gas-fired, coal-fired, or electrically heated in a furnace; the condensing section is water-cooled. earlier post ). kWh/kg and has emissions of 6.9

Energy

Energy Production Coal Suzuki

Synthesis Energy Systems and Ambre Energy enter into technical study agreement for coal to gasoline and LPG project; ExxonMobil MTG

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

(SES), a global energy and gasification technology company that provides products and solutions to the energy and chemicals industries, has entered into a Technical Study Agreement with Ambre Energy of Australia to supply a proprietary gasification design to support Ambre’s development of a planned Coal to Liquids Project (ambreCTL).

Coal

Coal Gasoline Energy Conversion

Harvard/Nanjing study: China’s war on PM2.5 pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2019

Cities restricted the number of cars on the road, coal-fired power plants reduced emissions or were shuttered and replaced with natural gas. Their study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). There was so much particulate matter in Chinese cities that it stunted the ozone production.

Ozone

Ozone Pollution China Chinese

Linc Energy signs MoU with UK Coal for underground coal gasification collaboration in UK

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2011

has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UK Coal Mining Ltd., one of the largest land holders and biggest coal producers in the UK. These sites relate to certain areas of coal within the Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Leicestershire Coalfields surface and underground mine infrastructure and sub-station assets owned by UK Coal.

Coal

Coal Energy Australia Diesel

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Production

Argonne study finds shale gas GHG lifecycle emissions 6% lower than natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline and 33% lower than coal; upstream methane leakage a key contributor

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Expansion bars show the components of fuel production. The base results from a study by a team at the Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory indicate that shale gas life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 6% lower than conventional natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline, and 33% lower than coal.

Gas

Gas Coal Emissions Gasoline

DOE to award $32M for FEED studies for production of rare earths and critical minerals and materials from coal

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

SSAB and Fortum explore possibilities for the production of hydrogen-reduced sponge iron in Raahe

Infrastructure bill's coal-sourced "blue" hydrogen worse than combustion, study suggests

Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

DOE awards $3M to MP Materials for project to extract rare earths from fossil fuel waste streams

Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

CSIRO study finds little to no environmental impact from fracing in Queensland

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

DOE invests $17.4M in projects to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

NYK Line invests in waste-to-biofuel company

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

Design study for SA underground coal gasification plant underway

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

US DOE to award up to $3M for coal-biomass-to-liquid projects

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

DOE awards U of North Dakota $2.5M to sample and characterize coal-based resources containing rare earth elements

China team optimizes catalytic hydrogenation process to convert coal tar to gasoline and diesel

Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

DOE issues $13M funding opportunity for advanced coal gasification systems for power or fuels

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

Understanding the variability of GHG life cycle studies of oil sands production

Sasol and ITOCHU to partner on green ammonia and hydrogen

German researchers boost algal hydrogen production five-fold using metabolic engineering approach

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

Researchers develop microwave-driven, energy-efficient process for magnesium production

Synthesis Energy Systems and Ambre Energy enter into technical study agreement for coal to gasoline and LPG project; ExxonMobil MTG

Harvard/Nanjing study: China’s war on PM2.5 pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution

Linc Energy signs MoU with UK Coal for underground coal gasification collaboration in UK

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

Argonne study finds shale gas GHG lifecycle emissions 6% lower than natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline and 33% lower than coal; upstream methane leakage a key contributor

Stay Connected