Potential for thermal coal and Clean Coal Technology (CCT) in the Asia-Pacific

Technical Report · Fri Nov 22 04:00:00 EST 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5788935· OSTI ID:5788935

Johnson, C J; Long, S

The Coal Project was able to make considerable progress in understanding the evolving energy situation in Asia and the future role of coal and Clean Coal Technologies. It is clear that there will be major growth in consumption of coal in Asia over the next two decades -- we estimate an increase of 1.2 billion metric tons. Second, all governments are concerned about the environmental impacts of increased coal use, however enforcement of regulations appears to be quite variable among Asian countries. There is general caution of the part of Asian utilities with respect to the introduction of CCT's. However, there appears to be potential for introduction of CCT's in a few countries by the turn of the century. It is important to emphasize that it will be a long term effort to succeed in getting CCT's introduced to Asia. The Coal Project recommends that the US CCT program be expanded to allow the early introduction of CCT's in a number of countries.

• Research Organization: East-West Center, Honolulu, HI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-89FE61811
• OSTI ID: 5788935
• Report Number(s): DOE/FE/61811-T13; ON: DE92006907
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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