Chinese's Academy of Sciences has recently announced an R&D project of a pilot plant scale process on the basis of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis technology developed in the Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC), according to the recent reports from the Chinese news media. Currently, major breakthroughs have been made in the low cost catalyst production, the efficient reactor design, and the process integration, Sun Yuhan, director of ICC, said recently. He added that recent technology developed in ICC has greatly reduced the cost of synthesis part in the whole process, indicating the economic and environmental feasibility for the development of commercial complexes in China, and a pilot plant test is under way in coal-enriched Shanxi province.
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