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Xinjiang Energy and Zhongwei Energy Sign Framework Agreement for Coal In-situ Gasification Author/Source: Gasification World Date: 2023-08-14 Views: 141 On the afternoon of August 9, 2023, Xinjiang Energy Group and Zhongwei Energy Company held a ceremony to sign a framework agreement for cooperation on coal in-situ gasification projects. The two parties announced that they would jointly carry out a pilot project for underground coal gasification technology, and pursue cooperation on industrialization projects once the trial is successful. Yan Yan, vice chairman of Zhongwei Energy, shareholder representatives, President Wang Yuanli, vice presidents Wang Chuanmin and Min Zhenhua, Wang Heming, chief engineer of Xinjiang Energy Group, as well as responsible officials from relevant departments such as the Production Technology Department (Engineering Department) and the Coal Chemicals Project Office attended the ceremony. Zhongwei Energy is applying Australia’s ISC underground gasification technology to build a coal underground gasification demonstration project in Tangjiahu, Ordos, with a daily output of 50,000 to 200,000 standard cubic meters of synthetic gas. It was commissioned after being ignited at the end of October 2019. After being put into operation, it operates stably. Coal in-situ gasification (abbreviated as ISC) is a technology that involves the controlled combustion and gasification of coal underground, a process by which combustible gases are produced through thermal and chemical actions on the coal. Low-cost industrial gas and chemical synthesis feed gas (referred to as syngas, with main components including hydrogen, natural gas, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, etc.) can be produced without the need for coal mining or for any workers to enter underground.