Gasification is the process of converting something (like coal, biomass, or waste materials) into gas by exposing it to high temperatures in the presence of limited oxygen. This produces a gas called syngas that can be used for various purposes, such as producing energy or making chemicals.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $ 14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in
integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture.
The project envisions an integrated coal
gasification plant with the capacity to capture 90 percent of its emissions.
Instead of natural gas, SynGest is proposing to use a biomass
gasification process in its ammonia production plants.
(Note: Full year 2013 includes after - tax charges totaling $ 729 million, or 83 cents per share due to construction of the integrated coal
gasification combined cycle facility in Kemper County, Mississippi (Kemper IGCC) significantly impacted the presentation of earnings and earnings per share for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2013.)
LTU Green Fuels is one of the world's most advanced pilot plants for
gasification of various types of biomass into synthesis gas and green fuels.
Finland - based Forest BtL Oy has licensed Carbo - V
biomass gasification technology from Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH.
Tier II sources include: waste coal, large - scale hydropower, municipal solid waste, integrated combined coal
gasification technology, utilizing wood pulping, employing distribution generation systems, and demand - side management use.
Develop advanced oxygen production systems for use
in gasification plants that will result in a significantly lower cost compared to conventional processes for applications to produce power with carbon capture or liquid fuels with carbon capture.
And a study that the task force cited suggested that underground
gasification with the carbon capture for storage would cost a quarter as much as IGCC.
Coal is the primary feedstock
for gasification and will continue to be the dominant feedstock for the foreseeable future.
R&D is underway
on gasification of this material to increase the efficiency of energy recovery.
The basic technology for turning coal into other fuels, known
as gasification, has been around since the 1920s.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement (DE-FOA-0000784) for up to $ 13 million to support the development of advanced coal
gasification systems.
Two model homes would show off systems that handled «biological nutrients» and «technical nutrients» 40 further homes would showcase integrated potable and grey water community systems, and a biomass
gasification facility for homes» heating and cooking.
Posted on 30 September 2013 in Bio-hydrocarbons, Biogasoline, Biomass, Biomass - to - Liquids (BTL),
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By 2012, Coskata envisions commercial production of 50 — 60 million gallons of ethanol per year, made
by gasification of approximately 1,500 dry tons of biomass per day.
«The Dakota
gasification project is creating synthetic gas and taking the CO2 from that process,» then pipelining it to the Weyburn oil field, observes carbon storage development coordinator Kurt Waltzer of the Boston — based environmental group the Clean Air Task Force.
St. Lucie county in Florida has agreed to allow a private company to install a
plasma gasification plant at their landfill with the goal of eventually processing all county waste as well as the contents of the landfill.
The conversion of the pyrolysis oil to a renewable transportation fuel is made through a process
called gasification.
[Response: I can't speak to the economic part of the question, but thermodynamically, it'd be easier to capture the CO2 where it's concentrated, say in the emission from an integrated
gasification power plant, rather than fighting entropy by unmixing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Technology to make coal cleaner is getting serious attention from investors; Secure Energy, a St. Louis - based coal
gasification company, raised $ 5.5 million of an $ 8 million Series A round in August.
Aemetis has signed a Master Agreement with key exclusive rights for the use of an
advanced gasification technology from InEnTec to produce cellulosic ethanol.
«The
Dakota gasification project is creating synthetic gas and taking the CO2 from that process,» then piping it to the Weyburn oil field, observes Kurt Waltzer, carbon storage development coordinator at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group based in Boston.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects to receive funding for next -
generation gasification systems.
There is also the option for using supercritical water as a pre treatment for AD, and various options for low temperature
catalytic gasification.
Evaluating Options for the Hybridization of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Biomass
Through Gasification in the Brazilian Semi-arid
So, the report argues, underground
gasification makes sense for new power plants in coal rich states, say in the U.S. midwest.
Uhde is contributing its proprietary
PRENFLO gasification process with direct quench to the French BioTfueL research project (earlier post).
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«First, bulk metals are removed, and the rest of the shredded waste is conveyed to a 700 ºC
gasification chamber.
The United States, he says, has little expertise comparatively, and the clean coal programs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy all but ignore the underground
gasification technique.
Yet as
pilot gasification plants begin to spring up around the world, this apparent environmentalist's dream is not being universally welcomed.
Then let's take the pile of money already wasted on coal - liquefication and coal -
gasification while ignoring the energy and environmental costs and use it for making direct solar energy the fuel for transportation, also all over the planet.
SDTC awards C$ 1.5 M to support Molten Salt
Catalyzed Gasification for hydrogen production; targeting reduced GHG footprint for oil sands synthetic crude
Using heating and pressurization systems that separate sewage into water and carbon, it would also fuel its own machinery and lights using plasma
arc gasification.
The 4,300 - acre Polk Power Station, 40 miles southeast of Tampa, burns coal using a state of the art low -
emissions gasification process.
At the same time coal
gasification remains a relatively expensive process and is rather unproven on a larger scale.
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