These efforts include chemically washing minerals and impurities from the coal, gasification (see also IGCC), treating the flue gases with steam to remove sulfur dioxide, carbon capture and storage technologies to capture the carbon dioxide from the flue gas and coal de-watering technologies to improve the energy quality and thus the efficiency of burning coal for energy.
Ramagundam unit was unique in terms of Urea and Ammonia production wherein coal gasification methodology was used - FCI Ramagundam (simultaneously with FCI Talcher) was the first fertilizer plant in India to use coal gasification technology besides being world's biggest coal gasification based fertilizer unit.
In 2010, B9 Coal in cooperation with AFC Energy and underground coal gasification developer Linc Energy commissioned a hydrogen fuel cell named Alfa System at the Chinchilla underground coal gasification facility.
Inventure Academy has had guest lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni and gone on field trips to Lalbagh(Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science).
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Students of Inventure Academy have had Guest Lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni, and have gone on trips to Lalbagh (Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science) and Indian Institute of Science, Intel, Navadarshanam.
Weyerhaeuser has operated a Chemrec first generation black liquor entrained flow gasifier successfully at its New Bern plant in North Carolina, while a second generation plant is run in pilot scale at Smurfit Kappa's plant in Piteå, Sweden.
The initially proposed energy generation methods of incineration and gasification were dropped in 2011 with the plan had been modified to include a larger facility for anaerobic digestion, as well as using in vessel composting of organic waste.