American Clean Coal

Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) clean coal technology is a proven underground combustion process, which produces a synthetic gas or syngas at the surface that can be economically used for a variety of purposes including:

* Production of liquid fuels using Coal To Liquids technology
* Electricity generation using gas turbines / combined cycles
* As feedstock in different petrochemical processes

UCG Clean Coal technology has been successfully operating commercially at a number of sites in the ex-Soviet Union for more than 40 years, where two plants are still in operation. In this application the syngas is used primarily for power generation and heating.

Linc Energy through an extensive R&D programe, which included government support, has developed a benchmark UCG facility at Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia. This is the first facility of its kind to have achieved sustained success in the western world.

UCG Clean Coal Technology is simply a unique and smart way of releasing the valuable energy contained in stranded underground coal resources. The development of UCG clean coal technology in Australia was strongly advocated by the late Professor Ian Stewart of the University of Newcastle.

A great deal of acid rain is produced when coal is burned to produce electricity.There are ways to Clean the Coal, called Clean Coal technology, but these methods are expensive and would probably require government subsidies or new technological breakthroughs to be viable.

The forum began with the emergence of Clean tech as a global industry and explored the opportunities for Australia and how we can capitalize on the surging economy of India. We then explored how finance and industry can accelerate the growth of Clean tech and how we can create a globally competitive Clean tech Industry for Australia.

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