The mining operation was designed to produce 8000 TPD of coal to be used by the CTL facility to produce 13,000 BPD of refined products (9,500 BPD diesel and 3,500 BPD naphtha). The Project consisted of:

Underground longwall coal mine
Coal storage and conveying equipment
General Electric proprietary coal gasification unit.
Air Separation Unit (ASU)
Syngas Cleanup Unit
Sour Gas Shift Unit
Acid Gas Removal Unit (AGR)
Sulfur Recover Unit (SRU)
CO2 Drying & Compression Unit
Syngas Preparation & Hydrogen Recovery
Fischer Tropsch Synthesis Unit (F-T)
Product Upgrade Unit
Power Block

At the 75% completion of FEED, MBFPower directed Kent to revise the process basis to make 6,000 STPD methanol and subsequently to make 17,000 BPD gasoline instead of F-T diesel as final product. Haldor-Topsoe was selected as the methanol process and ExxonMobil MTG technology was selected.

SERVICES PROVIDED:

Prepared Basic Engineering Design Questionnaires to facilitate licensor development of Schedule “A” packages; received and further developed licensor supplied “Schedule A” packages; developed a process design for Coal Handling, Syngas Cleanup, CO2 Compression, Power Block, F-T Water Processing, and Product Storage; and prepared an RFP package and obtained quotes for the Air Separation Unit.
For all process units, with the exception of the Air Separation Unit (ASU), Kent provided Process Engineering, Piping Design (3D modeling), Electrical Engineering & Design, Instrumentation & Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Civil/ Structural/ Architectural Engineering & Design, and Project Management.
Prepared a site development plan to include man camp accommodations, assessment of local infrastructure to support the impact of a large project, a transportation study for heavy haul access to site, all logistics including receiving, inspection and warehousing onsite