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Article: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY EXPERTS MEET WITH CHINESE COAL-TO-LIQUIDS LEADERS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 13, 2009
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West Virginia University issued the following news release:
Officials from China's leading research and corporate energy organizations met Tuesday (Jan. 13) with West Virginia University faculty and U.S. Department of Energy leaders to discuss advances in converting coal to transportation fuels while capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions.
The meeting was organized by the U.S. China Energy Center, a program of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy at WVU. The Shenhua Group in China is developing the world's first commercial direct coal liquefaction plant in northwestern China at a cost of about $1.5 billion. The plant will eventually transform millions of tons of coal ...