Journal of Energy Engineering (에너지공학)

The Korean Society for Energy (한국에너지학회)
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The Status and Prospect of CTL (Coal-to-Liquid)

CTL(Coal-to-Liquid) 기술 현황

  • Jung, Heon (Synfuel Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Yang, Jung-Il (Synfuel Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Kim, Hak-Joo (Synfuel Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Chun, Dong-Hyun (Synfuel Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
  • 정헌 (한국에너지기술연구원, 합성석유연구단) ;
  • 양정일 (한국에너지기술연구원, 합성석유연구단) ;
  • 김학주 (한국에너지기술연구원, 합성석유연구단) ;
  • 천동현 (한국에너지기술연구원, 합성석유연구단)
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

During the 2nd World War, several Coal-to-Liquid (CTL) plants were operated in Germany and England to convert coal to large volumes of liquid fuel. Big oil fields discovered in the Middle East after the war supplied crude oil at the low price and all CTL plants were forced to shut down. However, South Africa (Sasol) built a CTL plant in 1955 and 2 more plants afterward and the current production of coal-derived synfuel reached 150,000 bbl/day. Recently, the sustained high crude oil price and the fear of the "peak oil" rejuvenated the interest of CTL and several CTL projects are in progress. China established a plan to build CTL plants with the total capacity of 30 million tons of synfuel per year by 2030. China is building a direct coal liquefaction plant which is scheduled to produce 20,000bbl/day of synfuel in 2008. There are 8 CTL projects in USA either in the planning stage or in the ground-breaking stage. CTL projects are also carried out in Australia, Philippines, New Zealand, Indonesia and India. Korea needs to approach the CTL project in the perspective of the national energy security. In this paper, the history, the status, current activities and the prospect of CTL are described.

석탄을 합성석유로 전환시키는 석탄액화(CTL) 공장은 2차 세계대전시 독일 및 영국에서 가동되어 대량의 연료를 공급한 바 있다. 전후 대형 유전이 발견되어 값싼 석유가 공급되면서 CTL 공장의 운전은 중단되었다. 남아프리카공화국의 Sasol사만이 유일하게 1955년에 CTL공장의 조업을 시작하여 현재 하루 15만배럴의 석탄합성석유를 생산하고 있다. 최근 고유가가 지속되고 석유공급에 대한 불안감 때문에 여러 개의 석탄액화 프로젝트가 진행되고 있다. 중국은 2030년까지 석탄함성석유를 연간 3천만톤 (60만배럴/일) 생산할 계획을 수립하였고, 2만배럴/일 규모의 석탄직접액화공장이 2008년 완공될 예정이다. 미국에서도 8개의 CTL 프로젝트가 진행되고 있다. 호주, 필리핀, 인도네시아, 인도 등에서도 석탄액화 프로젝트를 추진하고 있다. 석유를 전량 수업하는 우리나라도 에너지안보 차원에서 CTL에 대한 접근이 필요하다. 본고에서는 석탄액화공정의 역사, 현황 및 최근 동향 그리고 향후 전망에 대하여 기술하였다.

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