Coal: A Latrobe Valley Story

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Coal A Latrobe Valley Story
Charlie Speirs Clean Coal Victoria
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(Approx 13 billion tonnes)
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Typical Characteristics of Latrobe Valley Brown
Coal

• Moisture content ranges between 48-70
• Ash content usually lt5 (dry basis)
• Average Net Wet Specific Energy 8.6 MJ/kg
• Average Gross Dry Specific Energy 26.6 MJ/kg.
• Resource
• Total brown coal (in situ) in Victoria est. at
  430bt.
• Measured resource of 72bt, with
  indicated/inferred resources estimated at 119Bt.
• Latrobe Valley potential economic resource
  totals over 33bt. Of this, 13bt is currently
  unallocated.

weight
Moisture 48-70 Hydrogen 5 Sulphur
Nitrogen 1 Ash lt5
If JORC Classifications were applied
Victorian Coal - A 2006 Inventory of
Resources GHD Pty Ltd
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CPRS will change the generation mix

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Clean Coal Can be a Reality

• Drying coal to reduce water content and
  increase energy value
• Increasing the temperature and pressure in
  boilers - raise combustion efficiency
• Gasifying coal to syngas - more efficient
  combustion in a gas turbine
• Gasifying to syngas - further processed to high
  value products e.g. low sulphur diesel or urea
• Capture the CO2 emissions and permanently
• store then deep underground

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Range of Products from Coal
/M-fuel
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An Alternate Coal Future

• Clean Coal for Value Add Products
• Fertilizers
• Clean Coal
• Liquids

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Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Policy

• Victorian Government Policy
• Victorian Greenhouse Challenge for Energy
  underpins continuing support for brown coal
  development
• 60 reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
  from 2000 levels
• Initiatives underway include
• Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (1 July 2011)
  
• CCS Legislation under development Federal
  Government
• Government support for Clean Coal Technologies
• - ETIS (A370m)
• - Otway Basin CCS project (USD5m)
• - Clean Coal Victoria
• Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET) 10 by
  2016.

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What Does This Mean in 2050

• 1 Energy Growth Extra 3000MW
• To get 60 Reduction in Power Sector
• Stn 1 ( 1.4) replaced by IDGCC plant or cleaner
  coal plant (0.8) or Gas ( 0.7 )
• Stn 2 and 3 ( 1.3 ) Replace with IDGCC or
  better ( 0.8 ) or CCGT Clean Gas ( 0.35 )
• Replace remaining Stns by IDGCC with CCS or Clean
  Coal Plant ( 0.2 to 0.4)
• Energy Growth catered for by Renewables which
  have no carbon emissions (0)

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Huge CO2 Storage Opportunities adjacent to
Latrobe Valley
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Otway Basin Pilot Project

• Australias first demonstration of the injection
  and geological storage of CO2
• Development and implementation of monitoring and
  verification regime
• 60,000 tonnes of gas injected to date

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Carbon Capture Storage Program

• Issues
• Carbon Capture from Flue Gas Stream
• Only Capture the Green House Gasses
• Use in Chemical Industry
• Reduce by other means ( Algae )
• Carbon Transport Injection
• Carbon Storage
• Depleted Gas and Oil Caverns
• Impervious Layer
• Leakage
• Migration

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Vic. CCS Program
Potential Victorian CCS
foundation
network/hub
To Melbourne
(transmission)
Generators (50-60 CO2 MTp.a.)
New coal based industries
Coal
Eastern seaboard pipeline (option)
Foundation pipeline 10-30 MTp.a. (scalable)
Onshore Storage Options (eg. Gippsland))
Offshore Storage Options (Gippsland, Bass,
Torquay ?)
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Latrobe Valley Vision
180km - Latrobe Valley to geosequestration sites
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Latrobe Valley Future

• Clean Coal Technologies including Drying,
  Gasification and CCS allowing generation with
  significant drops in CO2 emissions on 2000 levels
• Coal to other value add products establishing a
  new clean industry in the Latrobe Valley
  unlocking the valuable resource in an
  environmentally sustainable manner

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• Contact
• Charlie Speirs
• Director, Clean Coal Victoria
• Department of Primary Industries
• Ph 03 5160 9001
• charlie.speirs_at_dpi.vic.gov.au