Hunter Valley Coal Fired Plant, page-3

Game day - meeting with NLC / NMDC today

Something i found yesterday..... old article.... however, the last sentence says it all......

IMO it was pretty much approved already, until they realised - as our last ann states "a strong strategic alignment to India’s policy objectives" and "potentially be a project of national significance".

BTW.... the name of the report is "Demand for Grants"

"Pilot Plants Feasibility study on suitability of Lignite to use it as substitute for Metallurgical Coke. The coldry process is a patented process owned by M/s. Environmental Clean Technologies Ltd., Australia, a public Limited Company involved in the field of dewatering of Brown Coal/Lignite. In this process, lignite is crushed and made into consistency paste suitable for extrusion into pellets and hot air is passed through the pellets, so produced, to remove the moisture. Then, conditioned and dry pellets are mixed with the milling (Fe3O4) in the ratio of 50:50 and put into the furnace for iron ore melting and iron ingots are obtained with 95% purity. The result shows that low rank coal can be used as a substitute for metallurgical coke by using coldry process.

The pellets can also be used as a reducing agent in blast furnace in iron making process, a replacement to Coking Coal. It is proposed to go for iron reduction process (MATMOR) at a small pilot scale level. In this process dewatering of lignite will be done and iron ore will be added to make pellets which could be utilized in iron ore purification process, there by generating revenue for the corporation. In this connection tripartite agreement has to be signed between M/s. NLC, M/s. NMDC and M/s. ECT, Australia. Action has been initiated for Board approval.

http://164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Coal & Steel/16_Coal_And_Steel_7.pdf