Sentences with phrase «converting syngas»

Further, Bolsen reported that Coskata has licensed a variety of anaerobic bacterial strains capable of converting both CO and H2, and has patents pending for its bioreactor designs, which are scalable and capable of carrying out fermentation or converting syngas to ethanol at low - to - moderate pressures and low temperatures.

«There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s,» said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.

The indirect liquefaction pathway first gasifies the coal to produce a syngas, and then catalytically converts the syngas to linear hydrocarbons or chemicals.

The Rentech Process can also convert syngas from fossil resources into synthetic jet and diesel fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals.

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Heat and catalysts converted methane into syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) which were then transformed into liquid hydrocarbons (otherwise known as oil and its derivatives): petroleum, gasoline and, in the case of aviation, kerosene.

At the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, researchers have developed a way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a component of synthetic gas, or «syngas.»

Traditionally, syngas is converted to liquid fuel by means of a catalyst; Range Fuels is tweaking the catalyst to improve this procedure as well.

A fuel injector like those used in a car atomized the biofuels into tiny droplets that landed on a hot rhodium - cerium catalyst, which converted the fuel to syngas.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon - neutral way to convert vegetable - based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America's dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Awardees will receive approximately $ 16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon - based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels.

A real «clean coal» plant uses either gasification which converts the coal to purified syngas or oxygen enrichment in the boiler to eliminate excess air in the flue gases so that the carbon dioxide can be easily separated.

That converts most of the coal into «syngas,» which is mostly hydrogen and carbon compounds, and the rest into ash.

Gasification converts all of it into syngas, which can then be used to make a wide variety of chemicals, including methanol, ethanol, or diesel.

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer - Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel... Read more →

The Rentech - SilvaGas biomass gasification process can convert multiple biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) for production of renewable fuels and power.

IGCC plants use a gasifier to convert coal (or other carbon - based materials) to syngas, which drives a combined cycle turbine.

This process involves converting coal into a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen called «syngas.»

For example, BEST Energy in Australia, have developed a slow pyrolysis approach called Argichar, in which between 25 and 70 % by weight of the dry feed material is converted to a high - carbon char material, while also generating syngas: see www.ecovoice.com.au/enews/enews-47/Images%2047/Brief%20BEST%20pyrolysis%20and%20Agrichar%202007.pdf.

In the gasification process hard coal, lignite and other substances such as biomass, petcoke and refinery residues will be converted to syngas, and environmental pollutants such as sulfur and carbon dioxide subsequently removed.

Awardees will receive approximately $ 16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon - based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels.

``... Integrated gasification combined cycle technology uses a coal gasification system to convert coal into a synthesis gas (syngas).