CoalTrans India 2019: AsianCAA to Advise on India’s New Importing Policies

Delhi, India

The annual Coaltrans India event will take place this February 18-20, at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India.  Coaltrans events are very well established in the region, with 18 years of proceedings with an annual attendance of approximately six hundred international industry professionals.

The coal industry in India has changed drastically in the past few years, which makes this conference key in bringing decision makers together to discuss changes and strategies. India has transformed from a net exporter to importer, changing the way business is done, and who controls the flow of resources. Demand for coal-fired power increases every year, making electricity increasingly expensive to consumers. The government is very supportive of import initiatives, however there is still considerable demand to be satisfied by outside sources. The largest contributors to India coal are Indonesia and the US (Click below to read about Indonesian coal trends from our last blog post). India entering the import business of coal will be a big topic at this year’s event.

Mr. David Harris, Chairman of the AsianCAA and industry leader with over 20 years experience in developing green technology, new materials and supply chain service companies will be in attendance alongside other members of the AsianCAA. The Association plans to be a meaningful contributor throughout Coaltrans proceedings.  Mr. Harris will lead a talk and presentation regarding the logistics of import/export as well as new and interesting technologies surrounding processing and handling. This will be AsianCAA’s 4th visit to a Coaltrans event.

Securing Resources in Indonesia: Demand for Coal to Double by 2023

- South Sumatra, Indonesia

The growing need for power generation in Indonesia has PLN, an Indonesian government-owned corporation that has a monopoly on electricity distribution in Indonesia, vying to secure coal mines across the country. The 5 mines being considered will help support 40% of what is needed for the next 4 years, of PLN’s projected supply needs.

PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara) generates the majority of the country's electrical power, producing 176.4 TWh in 2015 alone. Last year, Indonesia’s power grid used up approximately 95 million tons of coal.

The projections according to Sofyan Basir, the President Director of PLN, is that the demand for coal will rise to 180 million tons per annum by 2023.

The mines currently being targeted for acquisition are in Southern part of Sumatra and Kalimantan, respectively. PLN is not disclosing how much the mines will cost all together, but that the two of the five mines they are looking to purchase, are being targeted for this year.

Due to controlled prices and abundant resources of coal in the region, PLN plans to increase its use of coal for power generation by over 8% (currently 50%, aiming at around 58.5%).

The buying of mines seems to be coming at a time where PLN is aiming to position themselves firmly as the lead energy providers for Indonesia. Currently, the mines owned by PLN contribute only 10% of the coal used in their coal fired power stations every year.

Basir asserts that the company is not concerned with whether there is a local power station near the coal supplies, as long as there is access, and reserves of minimum 100 million tons, the company is dedicated to building power stations wherever these supplies exist.

Ensuring coal supplies is crucial for the company and by extension the government that overseas operations. Heightened demand for supplies and limited access to resources could spell higher electricity prices for consumers. Current president Joko “Jokowi “ Widodo’s policies are in line with keeping electricity prices low, and keeping local coal local. The policy calls for keeping 25% of coal produced in Indonesia in the local market, with the price being capped at $70 per ton.

Only time will tell what this increase of coal utilisation in the Indonesian market will do for connected industries in coal ash utilisation. Indonesia’s landfilling and utilisation policies will have to adjust to make way for this massive increase in the use of coal.

Coal Ash Asia Handbook 2018

- Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, China

The Asian Coal Ash Association proudly welcomes its members and following industry leaders to view our 2018 Coal Ash Asia Handbook. Coal Ash Asia is China’s premier coal ash handling, processing and utilization information exchange forum. China’s role in the coal ash industry is crucial, as it maintains the top spot for most coal consumed by a populous per year. We hosted our international event in Shuozhou City, China, and welcomed top researchers and commercial enterprises to share and explore leading research and technology. Our tracks included:

1. Coal Ash Processing and High Value Utilization

• Grinding, Classifying and Superfine grinding

• Cement, Concrete, Wall Materials and Geopolymer

• High Value Utilizations: Ceramics, Cenospheres, Fillers

• Sulphoaluminate cement CalciumSulphoAluminate

      2. FGD Gypsum Utilization

• Gypsum drying and Calcination

• Construction Applications: gypsum block, board, mortar

• Agricultural applications

• High Strength Gypsum, etc

     3. Coal Gangue and Coal Chemical Residue

• Processing and Utilization

     4. Metal Extraction

• Alumina and other metal extraction best practices and methods

Please click below to download our 2018 Coal Ash Asia Handbook, with research from China’s top researchers in coal ash.

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Vecor Ltd: New Tile Factory in Zibo a Catalyst for Change

- Zibo, China

Vecor Limited is a company dedicated to green technology, operating in Hong Kong with business operations in Australia, India, Italy, and the Philippines. The most recent processing and manufacturing line was established in Zibo City, in the Shandong province of China. The goal of the factory in central China is keep the world's largest industrial solid waste out of the air, waterways and landfill. The project aims to use the supply of fly ash as an industrial grade mineral for high value industries such as plastics, paints and ceramics where fly ash would be replacing much more expensive raw materials than cement. Due to the well known logistical issues of exporting ash in high density, inland locations such as Zibo, many coal fired power stations continue to landfill their ash in record numbers.

Mr. Alex Koszo, Founder of Vecor and owner of the commercial solutions and patents invented by Vecor: “The Zibo factory is proving that the value of products made from recycled fly ash can be so high that they can profitably exported to any location in the world.”

This is big news for thermal power stations in rural areas in places like South Africa and India, who’s ash landfilling is becoming an issue both economically and environmentally. 

The original inventions used by Vecor were conceived and patented by the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2002 & 2003.

Vecor's Systema Leonardo™, the technology being implemented in Zibo, China, enables thermal power stations to safely and comprehensively eliminate fly ash liabilities by allowing their fly ash to be converted into high value building products such as grey porcelain ceramic tiles for floor and wall coverings. Systema Leonardo™ also creates significant environmental and cost savings over traditional ceramic manufacturing processes, through water, energy and labor savings whilst complying with the highest international quality standards.

Vecor’s Systema Leonardo has successfully developed and commercially launched its industrial technology to extract industrial grade high quality minerals from coal ash that is usable by industries that produce 5-10 times valuable products than cement.

The positive indication of such technology for the power generation industry and higher value products manufacturers is significantly positive.

In the attached presentation, presented in the dual languages of English and Chinese, you can learn about the following

1. Systema Leonardo technology introduction

2. Value creation business model

3. Long-term highly profitable green business opportunities

4. China market size and coal ash by numbers

5. Details of offer to power stations to eliminate the financial and environment burden of

landfilling

6. Invitation to participate as investor

Vecor was present that CAA2018, in Shuozhou,  Shanxi Province, China, this past September. In attendance were a strong delegation, including participation in international commercial MOI signing ceremony, for the Leonardo system. To read more about this research or other research from our September event, please request our CAA2018 handbook, with over 50 abstracts, by entering your email below.

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Monumental Merger Pending for China’s Huadian

- China

Two of China’s largest state owned electricity producers are currently awaiting state approval for one of the country’s largest utilities mergers in history. China Datang Corp. and China Huadian Corp. stand to form the largest power generator by capacity. Shares for both companies rose as news hit from inside sources at the beginning of the month. Datang’s listed unit Datang International Power Generation Co. rose as much as 5.6% on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Huadian subsidiary Huadian Power International Corp. added as much as 2.2%. China Datang Corp. Renewable Power Co. and Huadian Fuxin Energy Corp. both advanced 2%(Click below to check up on stock progression).

The China State Council will now decide if the merger will move forward and be finalized.

“To see this merger go through will be in line with current objectives China has to stay competitive globally by consolidating publicly owned enterprises within the same industry,” Amy Wu, Director at the Institute for Information Technology for the Building Materials Industry, and AsianCAA’s secretary general, in Beijing. “Many industries are moving towards getting rid of excess capacity, since the economic turmoil of 2015.  Law makers are also pursuing legislation which lowers China’s dependence on coal, and focuses more on sustainable energy”.

The current largest generator in the world position belongs to China Energy Investment Corp, another State owned enterprise. The Datang-Huadian merger would stand to surpass the CEICs capacity by almost 60 gigawatts. The multi billion dollar deal will place Datang Huadian approximately 50 billion ahead of China’s current power generation powerhouse.

For now the companies, and the government, are keeping very hush, providing no comment on progress or status of the deal.

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First Limestone-Gypsum FGD Systems in Indian Market: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

- Uttar Pradesh, India

   There are multiple applications for removing sulfur and certain emissions from exhaust flue gases of coal-fired power plants. Some examples are: Wet scrubbing using a slurry of alkaline sorbents, spray-dry scrubbing, wet sulfuric acid process recovering sulfur in the form of commercial quality sulfuric acid; and dry sorbent injection systems.

National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) is tackling the first series of limestone gypsum FGD systems in the Indian Market. NTPC is India's largest energy conglomerate with roots going back to 1975. NTPC Ltd is an Indian Public Sector undertaking, engaged in the business of generation of electricity and allied activities. Some of the largest coal fired power stations in India are owned and operated by NTPC.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (Japan) has received an order from NTPC to implement India’s first ever Limestone-Gypsum FGD System in India. There will be six systems installed, on top of the already functioning power generating facilities in Central and Northern India. Two of the installation will occur at the Mouda Facility, with a combined capacity of 1320MW. Other systems will be installed at Rihand plants two and three, with 2000 MW capacity total. The FGD system type that will be implemented at these facilities will be a dry spray desulfurizing scrubber system.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems is a conglomerate of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Hitachi, Ltd. Since 2014, MHPS has been achieving goals in environmental technologies and project engineering across the globe.

Here is how MHPS is helping NTPC curb emissions of atmospheric pollutants by using off-gas cleanup systems and technologies:

1.     The desulfurization absorbs sulfur oxides, and collects the generated gypsum by reacting limestone with SOx.

2.     The open sprayer system sprays absorbent (limestone slurry) from above the compact flue gas scrubbing tower to absorb harmful SOx efficiently.

More than ever before, India is pursuing rigorous emission-fighting methods for every stage of the energy producing process, from cleaning coal, to processing and utilisation technologies post combustion.  Since coal is still India’s top energy source, adding FGD type systems is actually becoming increasingly common. Only time will tell which technologies will aid India’s goals best and extend to industry wide practice.

Trung Hau Manufacturing: Watch Video on 100% Quality Sand from Fly Ash

- Vietnam

Trung Hau Manufacturing Company (http://www.trunghau.com/english/index.html) would like to introduce our members to a new technology, which proposes to transform all landfill and excess fly ash being released from power thermal plants into useful materials (artificial sand - stones). This technology has the ability to work on most fly ash compositions. Please click on the video link to learn more about Trung Hau’s semi-dry geopolymer and how they create 100% industrial quality sand from fly ash.

The president of Trung Hau, Mr. Tran Nghia, and a strong delegation including Dr. Do Minh, were active participants at this year’s Coal Ash Asia 2018. Dr. Minh delivered an oral presentation and paper concerning his research on “Accelerating the Polymerization Process of Fly Ash By Microwave”. To read more about this research or other research from our September event, please request our CAA2018 handbook, with over 50 abstracts, by entering your email below.

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