HONGLI CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES CORP. SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chemical Industries, Inc. announced that it had commenced construction of its underground coal gasification (UCG) facility for the production of clean-burning syngas. Located in Pingdingshan, the UCG facility will be the first in China to incorporate carbon capture and store (CCS) technology, a process that sequesters resulting carbon dioxide gas deep underground for decades. When completed in March of next year, the SinoCoking facility is expected to produce 60,000 cubic meters of syngas per hour.
Both the UCG and CCS technologies to be utilized at the facility are jointly owned by SinoCoking's two technology partners - the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the North China Institute of Science and Technology, both of which have designated SCOK as their exclusive agent to commercialize both processes.
