Ecological advantages of underground coal gasification in the Republic of Tuva

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the current situation with gas supply in the region (low gas supply of the population, lack of thermal generation based on gas), possible ways of solving the problem of providing gas for housing, industrial and communal facilities in the Republic of Tuva are being considered. The results of a study of the possibilities of using liquefied hydrocarbon gas, gas extracted from coal mining in the Ulug-Khem basin, gas from the underground fire of the Erbeksky coal deposit are presented. The needs for gas of all categories of consumers are estimated: the population, thermal generation enterprises, social and household spheres in the region. Prospects for gas supply are set out in connection with the solution of environmental problems: the reduction of air pollution in cities and towns. The directions of the solution of the problem of gasification of Tuva in the long-term prospect are substantiated, options for transferring the economy of the republic to the main gas supply, construction of the oil product pipeline are considered.