University of Wyoming announces collaboration in effort to strengthen state's coal industry

The University of Wyoming will partner with a national clean coal company on a testing facility in an effort to “assure the future of the state’s cornerstone coal industry,” the school announced late last month.

The company — Clean Coal Technologies Inc. — will put up $1 million as part of the agreement. The university, via the state and Legislature, will add $500,000. The money will be used to construct equipment at a testing facility at Gillette’s Fort Union mine and will also support studies by UW researchers. The goal is to test the company’s technology, which dries Wyoming’s coal, making it more valuable and potentially unlocking new markets for Powder River Basin coal.

“Our partnership with the university and the state of Wyoming will ensure that the test facility will be ready to commence testing of coal and will help our company move to commercialization in an expedited manner,” the company’s CEO, Robin Eves, said in a statement.

Eves praised UW’s work, which “has informed and quantified the potential of manufacturing valuable byproducts as a consequence of the coal-beneficiation process.”

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(Casper Star Tribune)