On November 30, 2011, a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) regarding Polygeneration Projects of CO2 Conversion and Application Technology was signed among Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Total Energie Development S.A.S (TED) and Shanxi Lu’An Coal Co., (Lu'An) in TED's headquarters in Paris, France.
Earlier, a joint research center named Low Carbon Energy Conversion Technology Center was established by SARI and Lu'An in an effort to promote the industrialization of Million-ton Coal-to-gasoline Poly-generation of Lu'An Group. Mr. XIAO Yaning, Deputy General Manager of Lu'An Group, introduced the ongoing projects, which aroused great attention of TED about the processing of Coal to Oil downstream products. Mr. Bernard Clement, Senior Vice President of TED Gas &Power Department expressed TED's interest in SARI and its collaboration with Lu'An, which made this JDA a prelude to substantial and extensive cooperation later on.

During the visit, a delegation led by Prof. SUN Yuhan, Vice President of SARI, had in-depth discussion with TED R&D Department of Carbon Chemical Technology in terms of low carbon technology and solutions toward CO2. After that, the SARI delegation visited the test device of CO2 Capture and Utilization Technologies in Chemical Cycling, which is jointly researched and developed by TED and Institut Francais Du Petrole (IFP). 

Prof. Sun Yuhan (L), Mr. Bernard Clement(M), Mr. Xiao Yaning(R) signed the JDA