India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) said it has won a 28 mln eur order from a unit of China-based Zhongyuan Coal Chemical Industry Group, for the supply of a coal gasifier and cooler assembly.
In a regulatory filing, the country’s largest engineering and construction group said the order was won by its heavy engineering division [...]

Construction major Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L & T) has bagged a contract worth 28 million euros ($ 44.13 million or Rs.1.70 billion) from China, the world’s largest and heaviest coal gasifier plant.
The Hebi Coal and Electricity Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhong Yuan Coal Chemical Industry Group’s mission.
Information of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), an [...]

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply.
On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments [...]

The Chinese government has just issued a circular on regulating the coal-chemical industry, urging local governments to tighten control of new projects.
The government will not approve coal Liquefaction projects with an annual production capacity under three million tons, methanol or dimethyl ether projects under one million tons and coal-to-alkene projects under 600,000 tons, said a [...]

China plans to promote the development of dimethyl ether (DME), a fuel created from coal, which is being touted as a cleaner substitute for diesel, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Standards for the use of DME as a civil fuel were bing being drawn up, the report quoted a circular from the energy policy-making National [...]