Carbon Energy's unique approach to UCG is based on practical experience of our staff in conducting UCG trials in the US and New Zealand. It was further developed in a 10 year CSIRO research program that combined the skills of its scientists in coal gasification, coal mining engineering and sustainable environmental practices. The result is a modular UCG design to produce high quality syngas for large scale production that is suitable for use in power generation and commercial chemical plants, with built in environmental management.
Carbon Energy's wholly owned UCG technology developed in conjunction with CSIRO enables us to offer the following
• Site selection and characterisation methodology
• UCG design tools and modelling packages
• Environmental control techniques, process design and control models
Site Selection:
Carbon Energy can evaluate the feasibility of UCG on a particular site, design the optimum UCG layout, model the gas composition that will be produced and determine the optimum configuration for the use of the gas. For example, Carbon Energy can determine the configuration of power and liquid fuel options and hybrids that will produce the best outcome economically and environmentally.
Carbon Energy’s proprietary tools provide real time process analyses to identify the causes of variations in the underground gasifier performance and to make timely changes to operating conditions to continuously maintain gas product quality. An important component of the environmental control modelling is the Cosflow technology, originally developed as a project between CSIRO and the Japanese government. This program allows the impact of coal extraction on the surrounding strata and hydrology to be accurately predicted and problems avoided.