CENTRAL FUEL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
(CFRI)
MANDATE
- To conduct research
in different areas of fuel science and technology with an emphasis on coal.
- To develop economic,
efficient and environment-friendly energy management systems for the coal,
steel, power, chemical and allied industrial sectors, both within the country
and outside.
- To develop new
technologies for the gainful utilization of coal in the country and for
promoting import substitution for coking coals.
- To assist the
country through consultancy, sponsored research and training in the field
of fuel science and technology.
MAIN FACILITIES
- The institute
has the following pilot and test facilities: briquette curing plant, catalyst
test unit for conversion of syngas to liquid fuels, CBJ hydraulic press,
coal preparation plant, coal-oil stabilized slurry unit, Fischer-Tropsch
process development unit, fuel-bed hot air generator, fluidized-bed combustor,
heavy, medium and hydro cyclone units, high pressure hydrogenation pilot
plant, high temperature graphitization furnace, hydrogen gas plant, low
pressure bracketing plant, oil-agglomeration unit, PSA testing unit, super
centrifuge and test coke ovens.
- The institute
has a wide range of modern instrumental facilities for testing and material
characterization, particularly coal and related products. These include:
atomic absorption spectrometer, automatic calorimeter, automatic calorimeter,
automatic Giesler plastometer, CDS micro reactor, coke reactivity apparatus,
differential scanning calorimeter, elemental analyser, ESR spectrometer,
FT-NMR/IR spectrometers, gas chromatograph, Hakke viscometer, heating microscope,
high pressure liquid chromatographs, high volume air samplers, inductively
coupled plasma emission sepectrometers, mass spectrophotometers, mercury
porosimeter, Orthoplan-POL microscope, particle size analyzer, proximity
analyzer, semi-automatic image analyzer, spectro-calorimeter, stack sampler,
sulphur determinator, surface area analyzer, temperature programmed desorption
apparatus, thermal analyzer, UV & IR spectrophotomenters, water kit
analyzer, X-ray diffractometers, and zeta potential analyzer.
SIGNIFICANT
ACHIEVEMENTS
In the last fifty
years, India has remarkable progress in providing large reserves of coal
and lignite to the tune of 200 billion tonnes, increasing the utilization
of coal from 25 million to 240 million tonnes and reducing the share of
non-commercial coal sources of energy from 79% to 49%. In all these accomplishments
CFRI has played an important role.
The significant
acheivements of CFRI include:
- Use of the technologies
proposed by the institution in all the 22 existing central washeries (
installed capacity 38 million tonnes of coal per year ), and upgradation
of high ash Indian coals by benecifiation to augment coking coal reserves
in the country.
- Selection of
optimum coking blends for steel plants, characterization of available coking
coals, commissioning of coke oven batteries, development of improved designs
for beehive coke ovens (non-recovery type) and standarization of specifications
and testing of coke for BIS.
- Development
of solvent refined coals (SRC), a coking additive, from non/weak- coking
coals that would help reduce prime coking coal component or importated
coal brands in the coke ovens in the steel plants.
- Chemical desulphurization
of coals with high sulphur content.
- Process development
of indegenous sand for caking index (import substitution) and reactivity
of coke/char, development of carbon molecular seive for gas seperation,
utilization of low-ash metallugical coke (LAMC) as heating medium in the
production synthetic graphite and substitution of synthetically calcined
anthracite by LAMC for alumina reduction cell.
- Basic studies
on the structure of coal theat have led to valuable information useful
in the production of coal fertilizer, sponge iron using non-coking coal,
briquetting and formed coke, predicition of tar formation demineralization
of coal and auto oxidation and spontaneous combustion in mines and stacks.
- Process for
building bricks using fly ash, sand and lime.
- Development
of a series of zeolite catalysts for the production of industrial chemiclas
like 2-, 3- & 4-picolines and pyridine.
- Development
of modified, new generation catalysts for synthesis of olefins and liquid
fuels from syngas.
- Improvement
of tar/pitch for use as binders for basic refractory bricks.
- Conversion of
coal to liquid fuels by multistage hydrgenation and by modified Fischer-Tropsch
route.
- Monitoring of
air, water, soil and affluents with a view to combating environmental pollution
by different industries; evolving national standard for SPM in stack emissions
of coke ovens and briquetting plants; collaboration with MOEF for total
methane budget from Indian paddy fields; study of CO2 emissions
from coal-based industries; and utilization of fly-ash in agriculture as
a source of essential plant nutrients and soil conditioner.
- Development
of coke/coal based efficient home chulhas under the NPIC of Depertment
of Non-conventional Energy Sources.
DIRECTOR
Dr Kotur S. Narasimhan,
Ph.D. (Fuel Tech. and Chem. Engg., Sheffield,
U. K.).
CONTACT ADDRESS
Dhanbad- 282 108.
Telephone: (091)326-60141,
61710.
Telegram : RESEARCH,
FRI, DHANBAD.
Telex
: 0629-201 CFRI IN.
Fax
: (091)326-864350.
E-mail
: cfri@sirnetd.ernet.in.
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