Much More Coal Required - Asia's Energy Need Rapidly Growing

April 22, 2011 - PRLog -- China and India are competing for Asia's coal supply.
India's coal-fired power sector is under tremendous pressure.
It has been reported that nearly 30% of Indian coal fired power plants are currently at "critical" levels. Coal stockpiles are running very low.

India isn't the only major coal reliant nation facing a shortage. China's Ministry of Railway recently announced they're experiencing hard challenges to supply to Chinese coal-fired power plants across China.

China's Coal Ministry is placing more than 2600 additional coal trains in order to deliver needed coal. Government sources said coal stockpiles at 349 Chinese power plants have "dropped to the danger mark or even below it."

India's coal problems are driven by a huge demand and high prices. China is having an unusually cold winter, and new government programs set to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions are forcing plant shut downs despite growing demand for power.
Coal use is increasing due to further urbanization, supported by new construction starts. China needs steel, India needs cement, and Asia’s major cities need coal to fuel their power supply.

There is an estimated 1.6 billion tpa of coal currently supplied to Asia’s smaller Industrial Boiler market, with more than 2 million small boilers scattered across Asia.

India and China, the two fastest growing coal-consuming countries must do all they can to save on precious coal. Coal is their most abundant but challenged fuel resource.

Why is coal challenged?
Coal prices are steadily increasing. In China this week sub-bituminous coal with calorific value of 5,800 kcal/kg costs more than $120.00 per metric tonne. Coal prices are expected to climb as we enter the hot summer months and with much of China experiencing a severe drought - hydroelectric power is severely hampered.

How to save on Coal use?
Asia Coal Catalyst Company offers CC-88 Coal Combustion Catalyst to Save on coal usage in India, China and across Asia.

CC-88 is applicable to all types of Coal combustion systems needing to improve energy efficiency. Many of China's aging industrial boiler systems are inhibited by slagging and fouling. As hard carbon deposits on the inside of a boiler the slag inhibits heat transfer, which reduces fuel efficiency.

CC-88 works to soften existing hard carbon deposits and help prevent new slag formation. Ass CC-88 Combustion Catalyst works its way through the boiler system it will help consume wasted carbon fuel that is collecting in the cold end of the boiler. As the cold end soot deposits, soot blowers and other slag removal devices removed remaining soot more thoroughly and efficiently, this also lowers the load on pollution control devices (electrostatic precipitators)

CC-88 will reduce fuel consumption by as much as 5% - 15% percent depending on the type of boiler, the boiler efficiency, the type of coal burned and the thermodynamics of the system.

CC-88 is designed to pay for itself through fuel savings and by helping to significantly reduce costs of boiler maintenance. Poor performing boilers are subjected to unscheduled shutdowns for removal of slag and due to fouling; sometimes resulting in costly equipment repairs.

CC-88 Coal Catalyst improves coal combustion and reduces harmful emission of wasted black carbon fuel (soot). CC-88 Coal Catalyst improves energy efficiency and reduces your operating costs.

Asia Coal Catalyst is dedicated to providing our customers with the least expensive method to burn raw coal in the cleanest and most cost effective method.
CC-88 Combustion Catalyst dramatically improves boiler efficiency by optimizing combustion conditions and improving boiler heat transfer. Return on users investment is achieved by utilizing all available carbon in the fuel, improving equipment performance and lowering operating costs.

How does Coal Catalyst work? Coal Catalyst CC-88 accelerates the oxidation- reaction of carbon to produce more heat per unit time. Coal Catalyst CC-88 Oxidizes carbon at temperatures lower than normal ignition temperatures, this speeds combustion and thereby reduces carbon and slag deposits in the colder regions of the boiler.

As a Slag Modifier, CC-88 alters slag deposits to a more friable, softer easy to remove deposit that provides greater heat-transfer and reduces cleaning costs. The catalyst will also acts as an Emission Control Agent that separates sulfur substantially reducing the quantity of sulfur dioxide, an “acid rain” contributor, in the flue gases. Fly Ash reductions also occur when greater amounts of carbon are com busted reducing the loading to the particulate collection devices.

Improving coal combustion efficiencies through a simple and cost effective means such as our Coal Catalyst CC-88 will help conserve valuable fuel resources.

Coal Catalyst also cleans the system of Slagging and Carbon Waste making equipment operate more efficiently with less maintenance costs. Use of Coal Catalyst CC-88 will allow longer and better operation of the older and less efficient boilers equipment. Coal Catalyst
CC-88 helps China’s many thousands of inefficient older small and medium sized boilers to run more efficiently and to reduce their pollution.

ACCC products are very strategic. Our Coal Catalyst pays for itself through improvements to the combustion efficiency. The product meets a critical need in a very cost effective way. Coal Catalyst helps to enable the many hundreds of thousands of Asia’s small – medium (.5Mwe - 100 Mwe) boilers, the least efficient stoker fired coal burning boilers to burn their precious fuel mush more thoroughly, utilizing more of the available carbon fuel contained in the coal and
reducing carbon waste which is currently emitted as harmful carbon filled smoke stack emissions.

Asia has a large system of coal fired boilers under 100 MWe in size that are currently operating at fairly low combustion efficiencies and have slagging and fouling problems. Both of these problems cause excess amounts of pollution to be emitted into the atmosphere and
consume greater quantities of coal than is necessary. With the use of our CC-88 Coal Catalyst, more efficient boilers can be obtained and lower levels of pollution can be achieved.

Roughly one billion tons of that coal is consumed in China’s industrial boiler market which on average operates at a mere 60% combustion efficiency. 40% goes up the smokestack as waste and pollution. Our product, CC-88 Combustion Catalyst, can increase that efficiency by 15% or more.

China has low quality coal and many highly inefficient industrial boilers. More than 1 million scattered across China alone.

The coal used in IBs in China is almost always ‘run-of-mine’ raw coal. It is not even size graded and not washed. Ash content is high, as much as 20%, with values to 30% being common.  

Much of China's IB coal  is the type prone to swelling while burning. Coal which swells excessively can forms sticky masses on the traveling grate boilers, which adhere together and prevent the free flow of combustion air. These factors all contribute towards low efficiency performance from Chinese IBs.

Combustion systems of Chinese IBs are usually low quality. Chain grate  and traveling grate combustion grates are usually lower than 60%.

Since IB's in China run on raw coal, burnt on low quality combustion grates results in poor boiler efficiencies. Even on relatively well operated and well maintained traveling grate boilers, combustion efficiencies are typically only 75%.

Smaller IBs, using chain and reciprocating grates, are reported to have boiler efficiencies below 50%. The Chinese national stock of 1,000,000 IBs waste significant amounts of coal

CC-88 Coal Catalyst can serve China by improving combustion efficiency leading to lower pollution resulting from a reduction in fuel requirements, unnecessary mining and coal transportation.

Please visit: http://www.coalcatalyst.com

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ACCC offers our combustion enhancement products to operators of coal-fired boiler worldwide as a practical and economical solution to balance burning coal with environmental restrictions. Our products reduce coal consumption and pollution.

Our Patent Pending Coal Catalyst products offer clean coal combustion and reduce harmful emissions. Coal Catalyst improves energy efficiency and reduces your operating costs.
CC-88 eliminates carbon waste, which improves coal fired boiler performance by reducing slagging and fouling of the boiler system.