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International Journal of Clean Coal and Energy, 2012, 1, 27-33 / 10.4236/ijcce.2012.12003 Published Online May 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcce) Demonstrating Fuel Flexibility in Commercial * Operation # Fawad Khan , Francis Lau Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., Houston, USA Email: {#fawad.khan, francis.lau}@ Received February 15, 2012; revised March 16, 2012; accepted April 7, 2012 ABSTRACT Synthesis Energy Systems Inc. (SES) enables its customers to advance gasification projects through commercial scale feedstock testing at its commercial scale coal to syngas facility in Zhao Zhuang City (ZZ Plant), Shandong Province, China. These tests help customers affirm individual project economic viability and reduce technology risk. Included in these test campaigns have been one and two-week long continuous operations at varying loads and on widely-varying feedstock such as Chinese Inner Mongolian lignite, Chinese sub-bituminous high ash (and high friable) coal, and Aus- tralian Queensland high ash sub-bituminous coal. Through these campaigns, SES has progressed one project into the detailed engineering and construction phase and one project into the feasibility study phase. SES believes that the abi- lity to perform these commercial scale campaigns without interruption of operation is unique to SES. The ZZ Plant, which sells clean syngas to a neighboring methanol facility, has been in operation since early 2008 on a design coal of high ash middlings (washery wastes) from ROM bituminous coal (30% - 40% wt ash). SES has made significant im- provements to the de