Equipment Purchase Agreements

JC Fuels has signed Equipment Purchase Agreements for all three major gasification technologies, including licenses for Siemens Gasification Technology SFG 500 Coal Gasification Plants.

• Texaco (GE gasification technology) API Energia SpA Refinery in Falconara, Italy.
• KBR Gasification Technology. KBR stands for Kellogg’s Browne & Roots. The plant was located at the Kemper Power Plant in East Mississippi, 50 km from Meridian. Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, began construction of the plant in 2010. The initial coal-fired project was central to President Obama’s Climate Plan, as it was based on “clean coal,” and it was being considered for more support from Congress and the incoming Trump Administration in late 2016. If it had become operational with coal, the Kemper Project would have been a first-of-its-kind electricity plant to employ gasification and carbon capture technologies at this scale. The plant was supposed to be in service by May 2014, at a cost of $2.4 billion. As of June 2017, the project was still not in service, and the cost had increased to $7.5 billion. As a result, the plant was closed and scrapped, and it was bought by us.
• Mississippi Power’s Kemper plant was intended to be an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility, utilizing a technology known as “transport integrated gasification” (TRIG) to convert lignite coal—mined on the Kemper site—into natural gas.
• The Methanol Plant is licensed from Lurgi, and two Ammonia Plants of Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C. site in Kuwait are licensed from KBR. The DME Plant located in GPC Quimica S.A. site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is licensed from Davy Process Technology (formerly ICI).

The total planned capacity is for the production of 3 million tons per annum (TPA) expandable to 10 million TPA of DME. Initially, it will produce 15 million tons per annum of DME blended with Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel, which will eventually increase to 50 million TPA per annum.

HS Diesel with 500 ppm sulfur costs $480 per metric ton (Nov 2019), but Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel with 10 ppm sulfur would cost $600 per metric ton, and 20% DME Blended Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel would be priced at $650 per metric ton based on industry norms.

Shell Gasification with Texaco GE Gasification Facility

This plant was installed in 2000 to convert heavy refinery residues into clean syngas, utilizing licensed technology from Texaco (GE Gasification), ABB, UOP, Parson (Claus units), and Praxair. It is designed to consume 59 mt/hr (1,400 mt/day) of heavy residues to produce 130 mt/hr of clean syngas, consisting primarily of CO and H₂. The facility is slightly over-designed (6%) to accommodate crude oils other than the standard Arab Heavy. The Claus sections are 36% over-designed to accommodate Basrah Medium high-sulfur feedstocks. The grey water treatment system is 58% overdesigned to accommodate Iranian Heavy feedstocks.

This facility was running at the time of inspection and is expected to shut down at the end of this year (2012). Spare parts for this facility are abundant and include gasifier internals, complete exchangers, compressor internals, compressor motors up to 25 MW, a Claus unit, and some distillation tower internals. Documentation is excellent in both paper and electronic formats. All types of documentation were reviewed and found acceptable during the inspection. We have electronic copies of PFDs, major equipment data sheets, major equipment manufacturers’ drawings, mass balances, detailed equipment lists, plot plans, process descriptions, and historical production data.

 

Siemens Gasification Technology

 

 

Gasifiers:

‘The Siemens SFG-500 gasifiers are state-of-the-art equipment for gasification, employing a high-pressure, entrained flow, water quench design. These gasifiers can effectively process a wide range of feedstock, including high sulfur coals, bituminous coals, sub-bituminous coals, and lignite coals. They are also capable of utilizing blends of petcoke, biomass, or liquid wastes.

The Siemens gasifiers have demonstrated exceptional efficiency and reliability, achieving a carbon conversion rate exceeding 98%. With low maintenance requirements and quick startup times, these gasifiers employ a cooling screen instead of refractory lining.

Each gasifier can process 2,000 tons of coal per day, resulting in approximately 130,000 Nm³/hr of raw syngas production. The actual performance and chemical characteristics of the syngas depend on the quality of the coal used. Additionally, the gasifiers require oxygen, steam, carbon dioxide, and water for operation. A heat and material balance specific to coal is available for the gasifiers.

Manufactured in Germany, the gasifiers measure 57.4 ft. (17.5 m) in length and have a maximum outside diameter of 14.2 ft. (4.33 m).