Process – Applications

The Coldry process and product offers the following benefits to different stakeholders:

To the owners of Brown Coal assets:

• The ability to upgrade your otherwise single application asset
• To open new applications at significantly higher values allowing new revenue streams
• Allowing an asset revaluation to significantly higher levels

To Brown Coal power plants:

• The ability to operate on a blended energy source, lowering total coal demand by up to 14%, total CO₂ output by up to 11%, and reducing ash accumulation by up to 4%.
• The ability to reduce water losses in the cooling circuit
• The ability to recover high quality water for use as boiler feedwater or other high value applications
• A business case driver for upgrading to higher efficiency, modernised, black coal based boiler systems, significantly improving overall efficiencies

To Black Coal power plants:

• Opening up of new and alternative sources of input coal energy
• The ability to secure greater control over input costs

To Coal traders:

• New sources of coal for the global seaborne coal trade
• The ability to secure long term contracts for coal supply

To Coal Chemical (Coal to Liquids, Urea, Char, Gasification, etc) plants:

• A lower cost approach to dewatering valuable input materials
• Retention of all-important volatile matter
• The ability to obtain higher value output streams from lower cost input streams