India’s First Indigenous High Ash Coal Gasification Plant

India's first indigenously designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant successfully demonstrated facility to create methanol from High Ash Indian Coal at BHEL R&D Centre, Hyderabad.

  • This is part of NITI Aayog's 'Methanol Economy' programme that is aimed at reducing India's oil import bill, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and converting coal reserves and municipal solid waste into methanol.

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  • Globally, Methanol is derived from natural gas, which is a relatively uncomplicated process.
  • India doesn’t have many natural gas reserves, so, producing Methanol from imported natural gas lead to the outflow of foreign exchange and proves to be uneconomical due to ....
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