The company gasified low quality high ash coal on behalf of Yankuang Yishan Chemical Industry Company (YYCC) at its Zaozhuang joint venture plant in the Shandong province of China.
The test included operations at full load and part load and the syngas produced during the test met all production performance specifications, including high carbon conversion efficiency, the company said.
The coal was supplied by YYCC to SES for this test as part of YYCC’s ongoing efforts to find a retrofit solution for a large coal to its ammonia fertilizer plant in the Shandong province.
Based on the coal test, YYCC and SES now plan to move into commercial discussions regarding retrofitting YYCC’s ammonia fertilizer plant with SES U-GAS technology.
SES said that the U-GAS technology can enable these plants to lower the cost of ammonia production through the use of much less expensive lower quality coals.
SES is a provider of technology, equipment and engineering services for the conversion of low rank, low cost coal and biomass feedstocks into energy and chemical products.
