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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Sasol Ltd has expressed its willingness to acquire a minority stake in a coal-to-liquids joint venture with Coal India Ltd (CIL) and NMDC Ltd, a little more than one year after it formed a 50:50 venture with Tata Steel Ltd for a similar project. Bhattacharyya, CIL’s chairman.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another 45% could come from recycled material, and the rest from a combination of older, coal-fired plants fitted with carbon capture systems and innovative processes using electricity to refine iron ore into iron and steel. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Royal Dutch Shell is postponing a coal-to-liquids (CTL) joint project with Shenhua Group in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China. “In But the company will keep playing an active role in China’s coal gasification sector, he added. In 2006, Shell signed an agreement with Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co. China Daily.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Anglo American’s combination of powertrain technologies, designed to operate safely and effectively in real-world mine conditions, will displace the use of the majority of diesel at its mining operations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. Global deposits of PGMs are quite limited with the largest quantities located in South Africa and Russia.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Because if all we do is flood the market with BEVs – and New South Wales still has 75 per cent of its power generated by coal – all we have done is shift the emissions from the tailpipe to the power station.” 2024 Mitsubishi Triton. The federal government target is to have 82 per cent of Australia running on renewable energy by 2030.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The story about China’s coal-reliant electricity production resulting in electric vehicles (EVs) becoming more polluting than combustion cars (see story) may have been twisted by some unscrupulous media to imply that all EVs, wherever they are used, are a far-worse for the environment than oil-drinkers (see the usual suspects for more info).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The new Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor Technology (AnMBR) will be further developed at a new demonstration plant at Sasol’s R&D Campus at its Sasol One Site in Sasolburg, South Africa. Sasol currently uses aerobic microbes to treat GTL and coal-to-liquids (CTL) effluents in ORYX GTL, Qatar and Synfuels, Secunda facilities.

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

South Africa-based Sasol recently provided the synthetic jet fuel for the first passenger aircraft flight fully fueled by a synthetic fuel; demonstrations of aviation synfuels have so far been using 50% blends with petroleum-based jet fuel.

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JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels. Tags: Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Project developers in both China and Canada are moving forward with new coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuel facilities, according to the Coal-to-Liquids Coalition (CTLC). The plant will be jointly developed with South Africa-based Sasol, the world’s largest CTL company. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

billion barrels of liquid fuels and chemicals from coal and natural gas. Sasol converts gas and coal into liquid fuels, fuel components and chemicals through proprietary Fischer-Tropsch (FT) processes. Sasol has used its proprietary technology for more than 60 years to produce more than 1.6 Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2022

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

Your Greenius opines that today’s oil, coal and gas companies are the modern equivalent of pre civil war plantation owners raking in massive profits off the backs of black slaves and treating them worse than the slave owners in Jhango Unchained did. Maybe because they never have or maybe because they believe it’s worth it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2009

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa and Rutgers University are proposing new Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reaction chemistry and process designs that they say could increase F-T process efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions by 15% compared to the conventional process. Credit: Adapted by P. Huey/Science.

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JUNE 15, 2011

ventilation air from coal mines. Replacing coal by coal briquettes in cooking and heating stoves. The work, to be coordinated by UNEP, is expected to be ready in advance of the next Climate Convention meeting scheduled later in the year in Durban, South Africa. emission reduction potential. Measure Sector.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This geographically diverse group comprises Brazil and Mexico in the Americas; South Africa and Nigeria in Africa; Egypt and Turkey in North Africa/Mediterranean; Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East; as well as Thailand and Indonesia in Asia. The OECD represents the developed economies.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This development is a significant step towards the implementation of CO 2 hydrogenation technology in South Africa. For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. In addition to NCAR, the study co-authors are from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; University of Colorado, Boulder; and North-West University in South Africa. Pfister, G. Walters, J.-F.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

The report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition , also shows that new nuclear power plants generate electricity more cheaply than other established “baseload” sources—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants—over the full lifetime of facilities when financing costs are relatively low.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Examining the role of shale gas, PwC’s report suggests that at current rates of consumption, replacing 10% of global oil and coal consumption with gas could deliver emissions savings of around 3% a year (1gt CO 2 e per annum). Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was discovered in Germany about a century ago and is still used in places like South Africa and Quatar to convert coal and natural gas into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Plant capacities ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of barrels of fuel per day.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. “It has implications for us.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.

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