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Alternative fuel - USA - Plant to Turn Waste Coal Into Diesel
Mahanoy Township, Harrisburg, Pa., USA - Forbes/Associated Press -Sept 29 2005: -- The nation's first commercial plant to convert waste coal into zero-sulfur diesel fuel and home-heating oil will be constructed in Pennsylvania, state officials said Thursday... Waste Management and Processors Inc. in Gilberton plans to begin the $612 million project next spring in Mahanoy Township, about 50 miles northeast of Harrisburg... Using an updated version of technology first developed by German scientists in the 1920s, it will transform waste coal, or "culm," that has piled up in Pennsylvania's coal regions into cleaner-burning diesel fuel and home-heating oil... The process involves mixing gasified waste coal with oxygen and water, then heating it to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit to produce a synthetic gas. The gas undergoes another chemical reaction to become paraffin wax, which is refined into diesel fuel...
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