Total Sinergy International has
announced the launch of
GEO-COAL technology, a
simple and economical process of
upgrading the energy content of low
rank coal by 50 to 100 per cent. A
patent has been filed by Drew &
Napier LLC Singapore for the
breakthrough technology developed
in Asia.
Founded in 1998, TSI is an
Indonesian-based holding company
owned by Agritrade International
Pte Ltd, WSJ International Shd Bhd
and PT Nusa Galih Nusantara.
"The interest in using GEO-COAL
technology validates the process we
have developed to cost effectively
boost the quality of coal supplied to
power plants, thereby improving
their operating efficiency," says Peter
Gunn, Director of TSI. "GEO-COAL
expands the energy supply by
converting stranded low rank coal
resources into high rank quality coal
with a greater calorific value,
bringing affordable energy to people
around the world and supporting the
economic growth of developing
countries. We are excited by the
possibilities offered by this
paradigm-changing invention and
are looking to quickly bring it to
markets including Indonesia, China,
India, Malaysia and Australia"
How it works: GEO-COAL
processes raw brown coal with
superheated steam, removing 60 to
80 per cent of the moisture and
increasing the energy content of the
initial low rank coal feedstock by 50
to 100 per cent. GEO-COAL
technology also maintains the
inherently low sulphur and ash
levels of the low rank coal feedstock,
helping power generation plants
meet today's strict emissions
standards. The ingenuity behind
GEO-COAL technology lies in its use
of coal waste as fuel for the
upgrading process. This makes it
more efficient and economical to set
up and operate than competing
technologies on the market,
resulting in significant cost savings.
First application: TSI has also
signed an agreement with a
subsidiary of Indonesian national
utility company, PT Perusahaan
Listrik Negara, on their joint
research and development to use
GEO-COAL technology in one of its
power generation plants in
Indonesia. Agritrade Resources Ltd,
an associate company of TSI, will
build the first GEO-COAL
commercial plant at their coal mine,
PT Senamas Energindo Mineral, in
Tamiang Layang, Central
Kalimantan, Indonesia by end June
2011. This will have a capacity of
500,000 metric tonnes per year,
providing GEO-COAL products to
the industry.