{"id":85631,"date":"2020-09-02T14:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17218"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:10:41","slug":"india-aims-to-achieve-100-mt-coal-gasification-target-by-2030-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-aims-to-achieve-100-mt-coal-gasification-target-by-2030-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India aims to achieve 100 MT coal gasification target by 2030: Union Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Union Coal Ministry has organised a webinar on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction.During the webinar, Union Minister has said that India aims for 100 million tonnes (MT) coal gasification by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Coal Gasification: <\/strong>It is the process of producing syngas\u2014a mixture consisting primarily of carbon monoxide(CO), hydrogen(H2), carbon dioxide(CO2), natural gas(CH4) and water vapour(H2O)\u2014from coal and water, air and\/or oxygen.<\/li><li><strong>Applications:&nbsp;<\/strong><ul><li>The syngas can be used in a variety of applications such as in the production of electricity and making chemical products such as fertilisers.<\/li><li>The hydrogen obtained from coal gasification can be used for various purposes such as making ammonia, powering a hydrogen economy or upgrading fossil fuels.<\/li><li>Methane or natural gas extracted from coal gasification can be converted into LNG for direct use as fuel in the transport sector.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Concerns:<\/strong> Coal gasification is one of the more water-intensive forms of energy production.There are concerns about water contamination, land subsidence and disposing of waste water safely.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Coal Liquefaction: <\/strong>It is a process in which coal is converted into liquid fuels or petrochemicals.There are several processes used to accomplish this task, the two most common being the &#8220;indirect route&#8221; and the &#8220;direct route&#8221;.<\/li><li><strong>Indirect Route: <\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>is composed of 2 steps:&nbsp;<ul><li>First, coal is gasified with steam and oxygen to produce a synthesis gas (syngas), which is then cleaned to rid of dust, tar, and acid gases.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The second step reacts the synthesis gas with a catalyst in the Fischer-Tropsch process which converts the syngas into a range of hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, diesel and methanol.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Direct Route: <\/strong>In this,<strong> <\/strong>coal is pulverized and reacted with a catalyst, then hydrogen is added under high pressures and temperatures in the presence of a solvent to produce a raw liquid fuel.This raw fuel requires refining in order to yield acceptable transportation fuels.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Coal Ministry has organised a webinar on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction.During the webinar, Union Minister has said that India aims for 100 million tonnes (MT) coal gasification by 2030. Facts: Coal Gasification: It is the process of producing syngas\u2014a mixture consisting primarily of carbon monoxide(CO), hydrogen(H2), carbon dioxide(CO2), natural gas(CH4) and water vapour(H2O)\u2014from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-aims-to-achieve-100-mt-coal-gasification-target-by-2030-union-minister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India aims to achieve 100 MT coal gasification target by 2030: Union Minister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3023,3024],"class_list":["post-85631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-coal-gasification","tag-coal-liquefaction","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762669},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}