Australian Governments Launch US$90M Clean Coal Demonstration Program

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Australian federal and state governments have launched a US$90 million clean coal demonstration program to establish clean coal demo plants in Australia's Latrobe Valley, Latrobe Valley Express reported. Government officials are looking for "interested parties" to develop pre-commercial demonstration scale projects as part of the Advanced Lignite Demonstration Program. The projects will begin as early as next year. State and federal energy and resources ministers, Michael O'Brien and Martin Ferguson, stated that a number of domestic and international companies have shown serious interest in seeding grant support for the project. Both ministers hail the program as the "key to unlock" the better use of brown coal. Funding will support demonstrations of coal drying, dewatering, char production and separation. Program guidelines say the program may also fund coal liquefaction, combustion and gasification.