2. Underground
Coal
Gasification

3. Outlines Pakistan’s Coal Reserves Thar Coal Potential UCG Process
Site Pictures
The Future Road Map

4. Pakistan’s Coal Reserves

5. Pakistan’s Coal Reserves
Sindh
185,457 million ton
Punjab
235 million ton
Balochistan
217 million ton
KPK
90 million ton
Azad Kashmir
9 million ton
Thar

6. Thar Coal Potential

7. Sindh Coal Reserves Map
CHACHRO
XII
VII XI
III V VI
MITHI II
IIIB IV
VIII I IX X

8. SUMMARY Thar Coalfield: Is the biggest coalfield of Pakistan,
Area: Spread over 9600 sq. km.
Reserves: Contained over 175 billion tons of lignite coal (GSP, 2002).
Discovery of Thar coal: Geological Survey of Pakistan in 1992 and remained active to end of the year 2002.
SAMPLE ANALYSIS:
The overall weighted chemical analysis is:
The quality of coal : Lignite-B.
Clay stone forms the roof as well as the floor rock of coal benches.
Coal Reserves: Block – V has coal resources of 1394 Million Tons , confined to the Bara Formation. The cumulative coal thickness varies between 9 to 30 meters within the Block. Total coal reserves are equivalent to 50 billion tons of oil equivalent (more than Iran and Saudi Arabia combined oil reserves) or over 2000 TCF of Gas (42 times greater than total gas reserves discovered in Pakistan so far.
Moisture
36.82 %
Ash
18.92 %
Volatile matter
38.24 %
Fixed carbon
28.22 %
Sulphur
1.2%
Heat Value
= MJ / Kg 0r K cal / Kg

9. Worldwide UCG Experiences Coal Seam Depth and Thickness
Pakistan
Worldwide UCG Experiences Coal Seam Depth and Thickness
Pakistan
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Mean Seam Thickness ( m )
USA
Indiana Coal Seams have Similar Thickness to Those of Europe
Former USSR
Europe
Mean Seam Depth ( m )

10. UCG IN THE WORLD

11. Netherland
POLAND UK

13. UCG IN SOUTH AFRICA
In addition to coal, the Majuba Power Station is fired by syngas produced by underground coal gasification at the nearby Majuba facility on the Majuba coalfield. The 3,000–5,000 cubic metres per hour (110,000–180,000 cu ft/h) plant was commissioned in January 2007 and the first electricity was generated from the underground coal gasification gas on 31 May Produced syngas is transported from the facility to the power station by 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) pipeline with a diameter of 600 millimetres (24 in). They plan in 2007 to build a 1,200 MW commercial generation facility.[

14. CHINA
China has largest UCG program Since late 1980s, 16 UCG trials previous or current Chinese UCG trials utilize abandoned coal mines Vertical boreholes drilled into abandoned galleries to act as injection and production wells
Commercialization Xin Wencoal mining group has six reactors with syngas used for cooking and heating
A project in Shanxi Province uses UCG gas for production of ammonia and hydrogen
HebeiXin’ao Group is constructing a liquid fuel production facility fed by UCG ($112 million); 100,000 ton/yr of methanol and generate 32.4 million kWh/yr
Researchers investigated the two-stage UCG process proposed by Kreinin (1990) for production of hydrogen, where a system of alternating air and steam injection is used.
Experiments, conducted in Woniushan Mine, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, prove feasibility to use UCG for large-scale hydrogen production (Yang et al., ).

15. UCG Project Thar Plant Complex

16. AIR-FIRED UCG CC COST OF ELECTRICITY ($2009)