China will import more U.S. technology for gasification of coal, its most abundant fuel.
In the latest action, the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT), Chicago, reached an agreement with Shanghai Sitco International Trading Co. and Shanghai Coking & Chemical Co. General (SCCP) of China for use of IGT's U-GAS gasification process as part of SCCP's Trigen project.
The Trigen project, in SCCP's plant at Wujin, China, is so named because it generates three products from coal: town gas, chemicals, and electrical power.
Under terms of the agreement, a series of U-GAS gasifiers will be designed, built, and brought on line in phases at the Wujin site. Each unit will be able to gasify 130 tons/day of coal.
The U-GAS process will produce a low BTU fuel gas that will replace coke oven gas in SCCP's coking plant. The coke oven gas will then be used for town gas.
Trigen represents the first commercial introduction in China of IGT's fluidized bed gasification process.
IGT developed the U-GAS process with funding support from the U.S. Department of Energy, American Gas Association, and Gas Research Institute. More than 10,000 hr of operations were logged in more than 120 tests at a pilot plant in Chicago using a wide variety of U.S. and non-U.S. coals.
Earlier, Chinese firms twice chose Texaco Inc.'s coal gasification process this year (OGJ, Apr. 27, p. 20).
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