Summary
With a vast proven reserve of coal, India has the potential to use Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology to utilize coal effectively. UCG offers many advantages over the conventional mining and gasification process. UCG is a newer-well proven technology of coal extraction that is being investigated and implemented around the world and that avoids most of the problems of mining coal. UCG involves the conversion of unmined coal, where coal seams are gasified, without mining, and synthetic gas (syngas) is produced for use in power generation or as chemical feedstock.......