On 31 March 2012 the Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj
visited North Rhine-Westphalia accompanied by a major business delegation
during a five-day state visit to Germany.
On this occasion ThyssenKrupp Uhde and the representatives of the Mongolian
government signed two Memoranda of Understanding relating to the development,
engineering and construction of both a coal-to-liquids plant and a heat
recovery coke making plant. Feasibility studies for the two projects had
already been prepared at an earlier date. The result of the coal-to-liquids
study was presented at the Mongolian CTG Project Conference in Ulan Bator in
June 2008, and the heat recovery coke making plant study based on ThyssenKrupp
Uhde”s proprietary heat recovery coking technology was presented in December
2011.
At the same time as the Memoranda, ThyssenKrupp Uhde also signed a licensing
agreement with the Ulan Bator-based company Industrial Corporation of Mongolia
for use of ThyssenKrupp”s proprietary PRENFLO® coal gasification technology.
“ThyssenKrupp Uhde is contributing proprietary technologies to both projects
and will also be acting as general contractor,” said Alfred Hoffmann, CTO
and Member of ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH”s Executive Board. Referring to the
coal-to-liquids plant, he added: “This plant will enable us to offer the
customer a holistic process solution from coal to synthetic fuel.”
The Mongolian government has been intending to limit fossil fuel imports for
quite some time and instead to increasingly utilise its abundant domestic coal
deposits. It has therefore set itself the goal of upgrading this domestic coal
and converting it into high-grade chemical and petrochemical products. As a
primary measure, the Mongolian government intends to build a coal-to-liquids
plant in Mongolia to produce synthetic fuels from coal.
“We are extremely glad that for several years now we have had a partner in
ThyssenKrupp Uhde whose experience and expertise in the EPC business can be
relied on in every possible way,” said Batsukh Yadamsuren, Director of
ICM. “The chemical plants on which Mongolia has set its sights are huge
and complex,” added Mr Yadamsuren. “Therefore, we need an experienced
single-source chemical EPC contractor and licensor if we are to satisfy the
expectations of the financiers and operators.”
ThyssenKrupp Uhde is a global leader in coal gasification with over 70 years
experience in the field. Since the company was founded in 1921, ThyssenKrupp
Uhde has built more than 2,000 plants.
“Our PRENFLO® solids gasifier forms the heart of the coal-to-liquids
plant,” said Claudio Marsico, Sales Director in the Gas Technologies
division of ThyssenKrupp Uhde. “Its state-of-the-art design with multiple
horizontally arranged burners, a cooled membrane wall with a long lifetime, dry
dust feed for coal dust and maximum capacity per gasifier will contribute to the
cost efficiency of the coal-to-liquids plant,” added Mr Marsico.
With its proprietary solids gasification technologies, PRENFLO® (entrained-flow
gasification) and HTWTM (fluidised-bed gasification), ThyssenKrupp Uhde is able
to take almost all available feed-stocks, such as hard coal and lignite,
high-ash coal, petcoke, various biomasses or household waste, and convert them
into highly lucrative products. PRENFLO® and HTWTM have already been selected
often by different customers in the recent past for worldwide projects for the
gen-eration of electricity, hydrogen, gasoline, diesel, chemical products and
for direct reduction in the steel industry.
In signing the Memoranda and the licensing agreement, ThyssenKrupp Uhde is
playing a key role in implementing the agreement regarding cooperation in the
raw materials, industrial and technological sectors, as concluded between the
German and Mongolian governments on 13 October 2011.
ThyssenKrupp Uhde has a workforce of more than 5,600 employees worldwide and is
a company in the Plant Technology business area of the ThyssenKrupp Group. The
company”s activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and
other industrial plants in the following fields: fertilisers; electrolysis; gas
technologies; oil, coal and residue gasification; refining technologies;
organic intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibres; and also coke plant and
high-pressure technologies. We also provide our customers with professional
services and comprehensive solutions in all areas of industrial plant
operation. Details are available at www.uhde.eu
Industrial Corporation of Mongolia LLC (ICM) is a Mongolian company established
under the laws of Mongolia. ICM is focused on development of national heavy
industry based on available minerals resources and marketing of its products
internationally. Company’s activities include mining, extraction, processing
and marketing of final products. Since its establishment ICM has been
developing several key projects which would have significant importance to
Mongolian economy.
Source – ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH
