MicroCoal upgrading facility to come onstream in Q2 2014
Tuesday, December 10 2013 - 11:55 AM WIB
Canadian firm MicroCoal Technologies Inc. announced on Monday that the coal upgrading facility it is building at the PT Wijaya Tri Utama power plant in Banjarmasin, the capital of South Kalimantan will come onstream in the second quarter of next year.
The announcement was made by CEO Slawek Smulewicz during the 12th Clean Coal Forum in Jakarta, according to a statement form the company.
?I am most appreciative to the organizers of this conference for recognizing MicroCoal's unique contribution to the clean coal industry of Indonesia at a time when we will be inaugurating our first MicroCoal facility on the island of South Kalimantan (Q2, 2014),? Slawek said during the conference.
The MicroCoal facility has been designed and engineered to upgrade the calorific value of approximately 190,000 tons per year of low-rank coal (approximately 8,000 Btu/lb) to a higher calorific coal (approximately 9,000 Btu/lb) by removing only 10 percent of the total moisture. Further, MicroCoal has concluded that its technology has another significant element, it can substantially increase the calorific content of this specific low-rank Indonesian coal above 11,000 Btu/lb by reducing the moisture content.
According to the company the facility will be the first commercial installation in the world.
Editing by Johannes Simbolon