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A part of this work was supported by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). 

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), 1993. Final Report for the Project of Super-Heat Pump and Energy Integrated System, September 1993 (in Japanese). 

The best-known processes are the IGOR (Germany), HTI (America), and NEDOL (Japan). The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) finished a 1501 coal per day coal liquefaction pilot plant in 1998. Shenhua Group Corporation is building a 40001 coal per day (1 Mt oil/year) commercial plant in China. 

The development of bio-based succinic acid production was carried out as the NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, an implementing agency of METI in Japan) project from 2004 to 2006, and the possibility of bio-based materials was confirmed. 

The authors are grateful to Dr. Paul B. Weisz lor the invitation to review the topic of the present article. They also acknowledge Drs. O. Okhuma, Y. Mitarai, S. Ueda, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization for their long term support of our coal liquefaction research. The authors also express special thanks to Dr. D. D. Whitehurst and Dr. F. J. Derbyshire for their valuable comments on the manuscript. 

This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 13853009 to SS Nos. 16380060 and 18380057 to MK). This work was also carried out as a part of the Project for Development of a Technological Infrastructure for Industrial Bioprocesses on R D of New Industrial Science and Technology Frontiers of the Ministry of Economy, Trade Industry (METI), and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) (to SS). 

NEDOL [New Energy Development Organization Liquefaction] A coal liquefaction process in development in Japan by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Tokyo. Crushed coal is mixed with a pyrite catalyst and slurried in a hydrogenated heavy oil. Liquefaction takes place at 450°C, 170 bar. The overall oil yield is 59%. The used solvent is hydrogenated and recycled. Piloted in Kashima, Japan, in 1997 to 1998. Two Chinese companies were licensed to build test units in 2006. 

This work was partly supported hy Project to Create Photocatalyst Industry for Recycling-oriented Society supported by NEDO, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (General) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. 

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