Tag: India’s coal gasification scheme enters decisive investment phase

India’s coal gasification programme seeks to convert domestic coal and lignite into synthesis gas, or syngas, and then into urea, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, methanol, synthetic natural gas (SNG), hydrogen, dimethyl ether (DME), chemicals and reducing gas for steelmaking. In effect, the country is trying to build a coal-to-molecules industry alongside its coal-to-power system.