Promotion of European coal to liquids R&D activities
The IEA Clean Coal Centre, with its partners FuelConsult GmbH (Germany), Glowny Instytut Gornictwa (Poland), Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) and Stredisko Pro Efektivni Vyuzivani Energie O.P.S. (Czech Republic) is undertaking a promotion and dissemination project. This is supported with a financial grant from the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under contract number RFC2-CT-2008-00006.
The aim is to undertake an overall assessment of the competitiveness and environmental performance of coal to liquids technology from a European perspective.
The major deliverable is this report, which comprises a review of CTL activities, worldwide and a consideration of possible future CTL R, D &D needs for Europe, building both on the global state of the art arising from work undertaken previously and the current worldwide activities including the planned and ongoing demonstration programmes in the USA and China respectively. This is complemented with comment on the capabilities and expertise in EU universities as well as EU industry should there be a need to implement larger-scale development and demonstration programmes and ultimately to build large CTL plant. Finally the benefits of seeking international cooperation on CTL R, D&D with stakeholders outside of Europe rather than limiting activities to EU member states is discussed.
The information is being promoted and disseminated to all European stakeholders, in particular to those major coal- and oil shale-using member states, Poland, the Czech Republic and Estonia, in which there is significant potential for an uptake of CTL technology and where industry is now starting to reconsider the development of CTL processes.
Full report can be downloaded HERE
Source: IEA Clean Coal Centre
PARTNERS
1) IEA Clean Coal Centre
2) FuelConsult GmbH (Germany)
3) Glowny Instytut Gornictwa (Poland)
4) Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
5) Stredisko Pro Efektivni Vyuzivani Energie O.P.S. (Czech Republic)
