Cabinet approves ₹8500 crore incentive scheme for coal gasification projects
- January 25, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Cabinet approves ₹8500 crore incentive scheme for coal gasification projects
Subject: Environment
Section: Climate change
Context:
- The Union Cabinet approved a ₹8,500 crore incentive scheme for coal gasification projects.
- The adoption of gasification technology in India is expected to reduce the country’s reliance on imports of natural gas, methanol, ammonia and other essential products.
Coal gasification:
- The Government is targeting to gasify100 million tonnes (MT) of coal by 2030.
- In the gasification process, coal is partially oxidised by air, oxygen, steam, or carbon dioxide under controlled conditions to produce a liquid fuel known as syngas. Syngas or synthesis gas can be used for power generation and to make methanol as well.
- Syngas is a mixture consisting primarily of methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O).
- In-situ gasification of coal – or Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) – is the technique of converting coal into gas while it is still in the seam and then extracting it through wells.
Source: TH