Sindicatum invests and operates Coal Mine Methane and Ventilation Air Methane projects to improve the safety, efficiency and profitability of coal mining operations, and therefore their sustainability. Sindicatum’s projects:[checklist]
- Maximize gas drainage capture – by assisting coal mines to enhance methane drainage capture, flow and quality which raises safety standards in the underground environment while increasing the opportunity for increased energy utilization
- Optimize the utilization of the drained gas and the generation of electricity and heat – including usage of waste heat from power generation which can be used for space and mine air heating in winter
- Effect a thermal destruction of surplus drained methane by flaring – Sindicatum has taken the lead in developing and introducing integrated methane utilization and abatement technology, pioneering combinations of methane destruction through both flaring and power generation
- Abate low concentration methane from exhausted ventilation air, which accounts for 70-80% of the methane emitted by coal mining
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Sindicatum believes that its holistic approach of maximizing gas capture, optimizing utilization of drained gas, flaring of surplus methane and destruction of VAM at the surface exhaust fans will ultimately facilitate near-zero methane emissions coal mining.