Sentences with phrase «for syngas»

Biological production of chemicals would provide another potential use for any syngas produced by or for Waste Management through anaerobic digestion, gasification and landfill gas.

Not exact matches

Air Products and Chemicals signed an agreement with Yankuang Group for a $ 3.5 bln coal - to - syngas production facility in China.

Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

By 2012 this should fall to $ 1.33 — at least for those companies using steam to turn biomass into syngas (several firms, he says, have developed this technology).

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.

Those gases are cooled and pumped through a series of filters that remove sulfur, particulate matter, and other pollutants; only then is remaining synthetic gas, or syngas, burned for power.

Chemoautotrophic «Knallgas» bacteria can utilize H2 / CO2 for growth under aerobic conditions, and have great potential to directly produce liquid fuels from CO2 and / or syngas [1, 2].

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.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

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.

Wilmot McCutchen (289)-- Thank you for reminding me about syngas based solutions.

Carbon separation is an integral part of syngas processing for F - T (the H / C ratio has to be adjusted, and contaminant acid gases like H2S removed; amine scrubbers get CO2 along with the H2S).

That system, called an IGCC (for «integrated gasification combined cycle»), makes burning syngas more efficient than burning coal directly.

Perhaps because methanol is so down - to - Earth: It could even be produced from wood syngas, resulting in char coal for carbon sequestration in soil.

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.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

Proven technologies for generating syngas by combining carbon oxides (from partial oxidation of biomass) with H2 (from electrolysis) can currently generate three to four times the product yield obtainable by fermentation (5).

Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass.

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

The ClearFuels proprietary thermochemical conversion process is based on its advanced High Efficiency Hydrothermal Reformation (HEHTR) technology for biomass - to - syngas conversion (BTG).

Possibilities include (but are not limited to) novel gasifiers, new applications for commercial gasifiers, co-gasification approaches, new technologies to increase the hydrogen content of commercially available syngas, and technologies to separate CO and H2.

TRI's multi-feedstock demonstration plant in Durham, North Carolina has run for more than 10,000 hours, and has successfully shown that the syngas it produces is well - suited to the FT process and upgrading to ASTM - certified fuels.

The boom in supply has caused a corresponding price decrease, so there is little incentive for the more costly, complex process of manufacturing syngas, Medina said.

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.

You burn natural gas for heat for a steam reforming reaction, to react natural gas with water and get a syngas.

Most advanced routes for solar production of hydrogen, syngas, and liquid fuels have been demonstrated at pilot scale.

The preliminary engineering services will review use of Rentech's Fischer - Tropsch (FT) technology for the production of ultra-clean synthetic transportation fuels from synthesis gas (syngas) derived from fossil and biomass resources by the Clinton Project.

The close collaboration between units delivering the starting product (syngas) and those synthesizing the jet fuel (both are represented in this project) will allow adapting processes for achieving highest yield and efficiency.

The syngas can then be used for power generation in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants or as a raw material in the chemical industry, for example in the production of synthetic fuels.

I'm stymied in my search for elegance - coming up with a way to utilize the syngas precursor that the woody feedstock to charcoal torrefaction process produces that's practical at the technology level of charcoal used for cooking, space heating, and «craft style» metal working and also operates well over a dispersed area with many small charcoal production operations.

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.