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Centre approves coal use to produce fuel oil
New Delhi 03-Aug-2007
The government has allowed companies to take up captive mining projects to produce gas through the liquefaction of coal. The government has made the required notification to this effect. Coal liquefaction is a process where coal is converted into other forms of liquid fuels that can be used for other commercial purposes. This is done either by extracting the potential energy from coal that would have otherwise not been mined using the available methods of coal mining and used as coal it. Or this can be done on the surface as well. The mining companies are allowed to adopt either of the approaches. Countries such as South Africa have been successfully producing gasoline and fuel oil from coal for quite some time and studies show that India's coal reserves are also amenable to coal gasification and liquefaction.
New Delhi 03-Aug-2007
The government has allowed companies to take up captive mining projects to produce gas through the liquefaction of coal. The government has made the required notification to this effect. Coal liquefaction is a process where coal is converted into other forms of liquid fuels that can be used for other commercial purposes. This is done either by extracting the potential energy from coal that would have otherwise not been mined using the available methods of coal mining and used as coal it. Or this can be done on the surface as well. The mining companies are allowed to adopt either of the approaches. Countries such as South Africa have been successfully producing gasoline and fuel oil from coal for quite some time and studies show that India's coal reserves are also amenable to coal gasification and liquefaction.