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Brown coal projects

3 brown coal projects

Project 1

Coal Energy Australia has been granted $30 million for the development of a $143 million demonstration plant producing fertiliser, oil and high value coal used in steelmaking. This facility will be at EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn mine, and products are proposed to be exported from Port Anthony in Corner Inlet.
The project will entail:
  • Building a pre-commercial lignite upgrading plant to process high value metallurgicalgrade carbon and other hydrocarbon products.
  • Integrating technologies for the pyrolysis of coal, based on coking, semi‐coking and advanced heating technology.
  • Applying coal pyrolysis technology.
Production of three products:
  • Low volatile solid fuel or char – a substitute for PCI coal in steel manufacture.
  • Pyrolysis oil, which can be distilled into various oils, including diesel oil for industrial heating.
  • Ammonium sulphate for use as a fertiliser or soil conditioner.

Project 2

Ignite Energy Resources has been granted $20 million for the development of an $84.3 million pre-commercial plant producing upgraded coal products for local or export markets and synthetic oil which can be refined into fuel sources such as diesel and petrol. This facility will be at EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn mine
The project will entail:
  • Building and operating a pre-commercial lignite upgrading and processing plant.
  • Utilising Ignite’s unique “catalytic hydrothermal reactor‟ technology, which rapidly converts lignite in a water slurry into an oily coal, that can be separated into high energy products.
Production of three products:
  • Oily coal, which can be separated into high energy products: synthetic crude (Syncrude) and micronized upgraded coal.
  • Upgraded coal – for use in blast furnaces as Pulverised Coal Injection (PCI) for steel manufacturing.
  • Synthetic crude oil.

Project 3

Shanghai Electric Australia Power & Energy Development Pty Limited (SEAPED) has been granted $25 million for the development of a $119 million demonstration plant at the AGL-owned Loy Yang A Power Station in the Latrobe Valley.
The project will entail:
  • Building and operating a pre-commercial briquetting plant and cogeneration unit.
  • Production of briquettes for export to China to fuel a power station in Shanghai.
  • If demonstration is successful, a commercial-scale plant could potentially supply Latrobe Valley generators.

*This information was provided by the Government press release on each project.