Synfuels report covers major synthetic fuel projects. [350 projects worldwide surveyed]

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · World Coal; (United States)

OSTI ID:5668481

Doerell, P E

The policy of low government aid overlooks the fact that secure energy supplies are the basis of economic survival. Whether the policy of transferring the economic incentive for the development of a synthetic fuels industry from the public to the private sector is wise remains to be seen. If the private sector is not able to develop a synfuels industry, government may have to act to support its development. The WORLD SYNFUELS PROJECT REPORT will be published in March 1982 by Miller Freeman Publications. In it will be lists of all the major synthetic fuel developments going on in the world today. This report is timely, for although development has slowed, now is the critical time for decisions to develop a commercial synfuels industry to be made. A large part of the report is dedicated to coal-based synfuel developments (gasification, liquefaction, and coal-oil mixtures), but there is significant coverage on work being done on oil shale, tar sands, biomass, and energy from waste. Also, a survey of the synfuels policies of more than 60 countries is included. Working through participating governments, the OECD/IEA group surveyed 350 commercial-scale projects planned for the 1980's. The study concentrated on six basic technologies - extraction and processing of tar sands and oil shale, direct and indirect coal liquefaction, coal gasification, biomass, liquid fuel production from natural gas, and new coal combustion techniques. According to the results of the OECD/IEA study, coal-based synthetic fuels will be able to meet the objectives set at the 1980 Venice Economic Summit to double coal use by the early 1990's. The longer-term significance of achieving these 1990 output levels is that a first generation industrial synfuels industrial base will be created.

• OSTI ID: 5668481
• Journal Information: World Coal; (United States), Journal Name: World Coal; (United States) Vol. 8:1; ISSN WOCOD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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