The photo is of the successfully operating coal gassification plant at Eastman Chemical Co in Kingsport TN and has been operational since about 1980.
This plant production is converted into feed stock that allows Eastman to be the world low cost producer of many products. Although they are currently a little slow as are most chemical companies, the production of filter tow is booming and they have trouble keeping up. The Chinese are addicted to smoking and come to Kingsport to buy an unimaginable quantity of the filter material.The gas plant allows that to happen.
I noted in a post above my efforts. As a young Jaycee, my close friends and buddies were the engineers who designed, built and operated this facility. Those were truly hedy days. The young engineers of today are being asked to work on throughly plowed ground. Eastman buys the coal just north of here in south west Virginia where there is a never ending supply.