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http://www.bcinnovation.com.au/CurrentProjects

BCIA Funding grants - Current projects

"The direct injection coal engine"

"$1,300,000 funding for 'High efficiency power from Victorian brown coals'; submitted by CSIRO Advanced Coal Technology. Project participants include Exergen Pty Ltd and Ignite Energy Resources Pty Ltd.

This project will investigate high efficiency power generation using processed Victorian brown coal in an adapted diesel engine. A range of low-cost, coal processing technologies will be examined and the research program expects a step-change in fuel cycle efficiency which will enable a 45 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions compared with the best existing brown coal power plants. The increased efficiency of the direct injection coal engine powered by lignite water fuel can be achieved at one fifth the unit capacity of proposed new low-emissions coal fired power plants; thereby substantially reducing the capital costs of low-emissions brown coal energy in the near term. The direct injection coal engine also offers the potential of increased operational flexibility to support peak load electricity demand and supply from intermittent renewable energy."


Yes Obe, even yesterday we would have said it was "coal fired", it is after all a direct injection COAL engine occasionally referred to as direct injection carbon engine. It is also a modified diesel engine but of course in this case it is "coal fired".

Wow, the clutching at straws has gone to a new level.

B Rubes