für die neuen.
Wurde ja nichts aus dem zuerst vorgesehenen StandortGrand Mill ,ist jetzt choctaw.
Aber interessant finde ich die letzten Reihen:
LRCWF team members are: Silverado Gold Mines Inc. -Owner of the Grant Mill; Coal Water Fuel
Services - Primary developer of LRCWF production and utilization technology, which has entered into an
exclusive agreement to provide the technology through Silverado; Great Northern Engineering -
Engineering firm that designed the LRCWF plant with CWFS; and the Mineral Industry Research
Laboratory (MIIRL) UAF.
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Silverado Gold Mines, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
Ed Armstrong
Phone: 907-479-7014
Construct and Operate a Low-Rank Coal-Water Fuel Production
Plant at the Grant Gold Mill on Ester Dome, AK
Site: Ester Dome, AK
Public Abstract: The Alaskan Low-Rank Coal-Water Fuel (LRCWF) Project is designed to
demonstrate the economic feasibility of commercial production and use LRCWF made from
hydrothermally treated Alaskan subbituminous coal in an oil-designed boiler and a diesel engine. The
initial experimental work, completed in 1991, was performed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
and the Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota. The US Department of
Energy (DOE), the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) and UAF provided funding. Initial
work showed that a clean-burning, low-fouling LRCWF could be produced from Alaska_s Beluga coal
deposit located near Cook Inlet and marketed competitively in Japan. The next step required for
commercialization is a demonstration-scale production facility.
In 1997 the A. D. Little, Inc. (ADL) team that had been awarded funding to demonstrate coal-water fuel
(CWF) in a diesel electric generating (DEG) system in the last round of the DOE Clean Coal Technology
Program lost their host utility site. After lengthy discussions with the LRCWF development group, ADL
proposed resiting the project to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and using LRCWF as diesel
fuel. DOE approved the revised program and agreed to provide up to half of the $48 MM for an Alaskan
LRCWF—Diesel Demonstration at UAF.
In order to better match DOE cost share requirements the diesel engine was ordered and construction of
the DEG facility was begun, while work on the LRCWF facility was deferred after completion of the
detailed design of the LRCWF plant. Cost overruns in the construction of the DEG facility of over 100%
have left a project shortfall of over $16 MM, if the LRCWF plant is built at UAF. Without the LRCWF
plant there will be no tests of CWF in the UAF diesel engine and the opportunity to develop commercial
Alaskan LRCWF plants will be lost.
Without an infusion of significant additional funding, there appears to be only one way to complete the
project and fulfill project obligations to DOE and ASTF; and that is to move the LRCWF production plant
into an existing facility in the private sector. This will eliminate building a costly new facility and make use
of an existing facility with much of the required equipment already in place. A private sector site, near
UAF, with much of the required equipment already in place, was found -- Silverado Gold Mines Inc._s
gold recovery plant at their Grant Mill on Ester Dome, Alaska.
Silverado has formed a LRCWF production team with the expertise and experience necessary to
successfully construct and operate the LRCWF plant at the Grant Mill in a timely, cost-effective manner.
LRCWF team members are: Silverado Gold Mines Inc. -Owner of the Grant Mill; Coal Water Fuel
Services - Primary developer of LRCWF production and utilization technology, which has entered into an
exclusive agreement to provide the technology through Silverado; Great Northern Engineering -
Engineering firm that designed the LRCWF plant with CWFS; and the Mineral Industry Research
Laboratory (MIIRL) UAF.
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