Consol Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems (SES) announced that the West Virginia coal gasification project will not be funded. CoalGasificationNews.com had reported on the West Virginia Gasification Project. Consol Energy had previously announced the West Virginia Gasification Project and the project was planned to be a Coal-To-Liquids project. The project would gasify West Virginia coal [...]

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (EMRE) is marketing a proprietary process that converts methanol to gasoline. The process is designated as MTG Technology. The MTG process has recently seen increased commercial activity with the increased interest in coal-to-liquid (CTL) plants in the United States. The increased interest in Coal-To-Liquids plants in the U.S. is increasing commercial [...]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has selected Nexterra Energy Corporation’s biomass gasification technology for installation at the campus. Nexterra received a contract to provide a biomass gasification system for Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide syngas to replace natural gas. The Nexterra biomass gasification system is the main contract of an $89 million project of [...]

Nexterra biomass gasification test is a success. Nexterra Energy Corporation has been developing a biomass gasification process and has tested the operation of the process and equipment. The feedstock for the test was barkwood fuel (hog fuel). Bark, scraps, shavings and sawdust often are combined into “hog fuel,” waste wood burned for energy by saw, [...]

On January 30, 2008 the DOE announced a “Restructured FutureGen”. On June 24, 2008, the DOE announced a financial assistance funding opportunity. The deadline for submission of applications for the “Restructured Futuregen” funding opportunity was October 8, 2008. The DOE and NETL have not released any information about the number of applications that were received [...]

The Environmental and Energy Research Center (EERC) in Grand Fork, ND has created fuel from renewable sources that meets JP-8 aviation jet fuel criteria. The EERC has produced fuel using renewable feedstock that meets the criteria for JP-8 aviation jet fuel. JP-8 aviation fuel must meet stringent criteria for freeze point, density, flash point, energy, [...]

ConocoPhillips announced the Sweeny Refinery Gasification Project. The gasification project will be be constructed at the Sweeny Refinery in Sweeny, Texas. The project will use ConocoPhillips proprietary E-Gas gasification technology. The announcement was made at the Gasification Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. The feedstock for the Sweeny Refinery Gasification Project will be 5,000 tpd petcoke. [...]

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is developing technology to reduce the size of a gasifier. Rocketdyne is the premier jet propulsion test company in the United States. Rocketdyne is using rocket science to improve solids gasification technology. Rocketdyne is using technology that the company has developed for it’s rocket business. ExxonMobil Research and Engineering is collaborating [...]