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Main Forum•Regal Resources: Phase two testing of UCTL
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Most people do not know that ASX: RER are sitting on patents for Underground Coal to Liquids technology that if successful could make the production of liquid fuels from coal at a fraction of the current costs.
I have been following this UCTL process for some time as it would allow companies like CTP with their trillions of tons of UCG suitable coal to produce liquids cheaply and in great volumes.... in effect Australia would become the next Saudi!
UCTL Update: Stanford University Appointment
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Stanford University, USA, engaged to conduct Phase Two laboratory bench testing.
The Directors of Regal Resources Limited ("Regal" or "the Company") (ASX:RER) via its 50% owned entity UCTL Pty Ltd, are delighted to advise that they have retained Stanford University in California, one of the world's leading research universities, to conduct Phase Two Proof of Concept Testing of its UCTL technology.
Stanford University was assessed to have the greatest capability to conduct laboratory bench testing for UCTL. The working team will be led by Professor Reginald Mitchell, who is one of the leading research scientists in the field of coal technology, concerned with characterizing the physical and chemical processes that occur in the reaction of coal and biomass.
Following two detailed technical reports by the engineering consulting company, C&C Engineering (Phase One) assessing the UCTL technology, UCTL Pty Ltd received submissions from eminent scientific research institutions and chose Stanford University to conduct the Phase Two work. Phase Two consists of a six month regime of laboratory bench testing to investigate the reaction of coal with supercritical water to form liquid and gaseous fuels, at the anticipated UCTL temperatures and pressures.
"We are delighted that Stanford and Professor Mitchell will be working with us to test the UCTL concept," said
Teresa Cheung, of C&C Engineering, who is acting as UCTL?s technology development manager in the U.S.
"We received several proposals from leading research institutions, such as MIT, General Atomics, and SRI International, and we judged Stanford to be the most suitable for the current needs of UCTL. We believe Prof. Mitchell's apparatus to be one of the leading supercritical water testing systems in the world."
Samples of USA and Australian coals, including samples from Regal's Oak Park test site, will be trialed during Phase Two.
About UCTL:
UCTL is a novel patent pending technology which aims to convert low rank brown coal / lignite in-situ into liquid hydrocarbons (synthetic crude or "syncrude") that can be refined into marketable oil products using a tailored combination of commercially proven refining processes.
UCTL consists of a combination of innovative applications of existing technologies. The key conversion step is the technically proven hydrogenation of coal with super-critical water to produce liquid (oil and gas) hydrocarbons. If proven, UCTL holds the promise of lower capex and opex and more rapid deployment than existing liquefaction processes.
Visit: http://www.ucg-gtl.com/ucgl-coal-to-liquids-underground.html for more information.
I hold RER and I am looking forward to seeing "proof of concept" as if the process can be used commercially it will do away with the expensive Fischer-Tropsch stage of the UCG-GTL process and allow Australia to become fully liquid fuel independent at a very low cost. The flow on to companies like CTP with their trillion tons of UCG suitable coal will be enormous.
I hold RER and CTP.
Visit http://www.ucg-gtl.com/ for more information.
