Coal Gasification Technology in China will Realize Industrilization within 5 years

Experts attending Forum on Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xinjiang Province said coal gasification technology, significant to Chinese energy structure, can be industrialized in 5 years.

Sun Yuhan, Head of Shanxi Coal Chemical Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said coal chemical industry is hindered by slow progress in coal gasification technology research. It will still take 5 to 8 years to realize large-scale utilization of coal gasification technology.

Although China has developed ash agglomeration technique featured high adaptation to different types of coal and low investment and oxigen consumption, there is no commecialized model equipment using this technology, which makes it difficult to popularize and meet the pending demand of coal chemical development.

As estimated, in 2010 the annual consumption of coal for gasification can reach 100millionMT with methanol, coal-to-oil and coal-to-olefin equipments in construction all having urgent demand of coal gasification technology.