India’s first high ash coal gasification based methanol production plant inaugurated

India’s first indigenously Designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) Research and Development Centre, Hyderabad was inaugurated on Wednesday. Member of NITI Aayog Dr V K Saraswat, Chairman of BHEL Nalin Shinghal along with BHEL’s Coal Gasification team were present to witness India’s first demonstration plant of its kind, designed entirely in-house to work on high-ash Indian coal, as per a press release.

About the plant:

• The facility can create 0.25 ton per day (TPD) Methanol from high ash Indian coal using a 1.2 TPD Fluidized bed gasifier.
• The purity of the crude methanol produced is between 98 and 99.5 per cent.