Bobwins,Are their any companies in the U.S. building coal liquification plants.I noticed the article in 321gold that pertained to gpxm.I live in the northeast and with all the coal up here it would be a boom for the faultering economy in this neck of the woods.I deal in biz with a lot of chinese and they are very intelligent people and once they trust you will do anything for you.With our energy crisis here this country better put politics aside and start investing(until completion)money for alternate energy sources.Too much talk for years now we are paying the price.Here is the excerpt from the article:Now back to the Liquefacton portion of this report. The China Daily News online on the 03/12/2004 carried an interesting article on China's liquefaction projects. They stated in part that China has set up its first coal liquefaction research centre in Shanghai, a move to safeguard the nation's increasing oil supply shortage. The centre will explore and develop direct and indirect liquefaction technologies to produce gasoline & diesel fuel.
Shenhua Corp. one of China's largest coal companies w/ an 80% interest in this centre, has almost completed construction of a US $3.3 billion coal liquefaction plant in Inner Mongolia. Operations of this plant are expected to commence in 2005 to produce 1 million tons of gasoline and diesel fuel p/yr. By 2008 they expect to produce 5 million tons of oil with four more production lines. The second phase of the project will involve an additional investment of US $7.3 billion. Plans for two more coal to oil projects are on the shelf.
In another article by People's Daily news of Jan. 24/05 it is stated that by 2013, 10% of oil imports to China will have been replaced by coal liquefaction. The article also states that international indicators show that the process is profitable at between $22.00 to $28.00 US p/barrel and that the National Reform and Development Commission is considering making coal liquefaction one of China's key construction projects this year.
The other aspect of this trend towards liquefaction is the use of recycled tires and plastics in the process. The plastics alone it is estimated comprise approximately 21% by volume of US landfill sites. There is obviously no need to mention the quantities of used tires in the world. The process for the process involving tires & plastic is called Co-Processing and is achieved by combining feed-stocks of coal with the other two products simultaneously.
