Reporting from the Gasification Technologies Conference
This week Robert Rapier attended the 2011 Gasification Technologies Conference. This conference covers developments for converting coal, natural gas, and biomass to power and liquid fuels via gasification. Robert provided some updates from the conference on Twitter (@RRapier), including:
- Shell’s 140,000 bpd Pearl GTL facility has started up. During the project, Shell has gone an amazing 77 million man hours without a lost time injury.
- At the conference, Shell predicted that in 2050 the world will use twice as much overall energy and 6-10 times as much renewable energy as today.
- The U.S. is falling behind China in gasification. Since 2004, China has started up 35 gasification plants while the U.S. has started up zero.
- Biomass to liquid (BTL) producer Rentech is scheduled to begin producing fuel from their 20 ton per day facility in Colorado by the end of this year.
See article here.
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