Synthesis Energy Systems (SES) announced that the Joint Venture project with Shandong Hai Hua Coal and Chemical Company has started commercial production. The commissioning and startup phase is complete and the plant has begun it’s normal operations.

SES is a technology company that builds and operates coal gasification plants utilizing the companies proprietary U-Gas Technology. The U-Gas technology is a fluidized bed gasification process that converts low rank coal and coal wastes into higher value products. SES has offices in Houston, Texas and Shanghai, China and licenses the technology from the Gas Technology Institute. The U-Gas technology has the feedstock flexibility to use low rank coal, high ash coal and high moisture coals as well as biomass. The technology can be deployed efficiently on a smaller scale which enables the company to construct plants quickly and in many cases in close proximity to the coal source.