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皇冠体育app to have world's largest clean coal conversion industry by '20

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-09-19 13:37

TAIYUAN - 皇冠体育app is expected to develop its coal conversion industry into the world's largest by 2020, as the world's largest coal producer and consumer is seeking clean uses of its huge coal resources, industry insiders forecast.

"皇冠体育app's capacity of coal liquefaction projects would hit the equivalent of 20 million tons of oil, that of coal-to-gas would reach 50 billion cubic meters, and coal-to-chemical totaled 10 million tons of oil equivalent," Du Minghua, deputy director of 皇冠体育app Shenhua CTL & CTC Research Institute, said at an energy forum in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province.

The scale would then become the largest in the world, while some of the technologies would be the top level in the world, he noted.

He said that so far, 皇冠体育app has finished construction on 8 pilot clean coal conversion projects. Annual coal liquefaction capacity stands at 1.68 million tons, and that for coal-to-gas 15 billion cubic meters. Capacity for coal-to-olefin stands at 1.7 million tons, Du said.

皇冠体育app has large deposits of coal, but lacks oil and gas.

At present, coal is mainly used for power generation in 皇冠体育app, which has caused severe pollution, Wang Jianguo, director of the Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.

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"For 皇冠体育app, coal is dominant in the energy mix, not only at present, but will be in the coming 40 to 50 years", said Ni Weidou, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering,

皇冠体育app would rely more on coal for power generation, he said, noting that clean utilization of coal would be the key for 皇冠体育app to develop a low-carbon economy.

皇冠体育app should better use coal-produced liquid fuel and chemical products to make up for the shortage of oil, Wang said.

To develop the clean coal conversion sector would help 皇冠体育app to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide because it is easier to capture and store during the process than during direct burning. It would help the country to meet its target of cutting the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent, compared with the 2005 level, experts said.

However, some experts also warned against blind investments in such projects, arguing that investment should also consider market demand.