DOE Clean-Coal Technology Project Pays Off

摘要

The technology to produce methanol from coal, which could be a very important source of liquid fuel, has been known for some time but was cost prohibitive. Now, in what is claimed to be one of the Department of Energy's most successful Clean Coal Technology projects, Air Products Liquid Phase Conversion Co. LP, a partnership between Air Products and Chemicals Inc. and Eastman Chemical Co., successfully completed a nearly 11-year project to demonstrate an advanced method to make methanol from coal. The project was one of 38 joint government-industry clean coal technology demonstration ventures funded by the Energy Department in a program originally started during the Reagan Administration.