Sentences with phrase «of syngas»

Catalytic creation of syngas from CO2 and H2 from H2O powered by electricity from solar, or by solar directly, have been demonstrated.

Various parameters will be identified and varied throughout the experimental campaigns to optimize efficiencies, yields, and CO / H2 ratios of the syngas.

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).

It is also important to control the chemical makeup of the syngas.

«All of the syngas goes into heat or energy production,» Synfuels chemist Ed Peterson says, and the company cuts down on cost by using such by - products to make energy and employing components built with cheaper steel alloyed with carbon as well as easy to maintain low pressures.

There, the coal is partially oxidized; the gas which escapes from the second pipe is a mixture of syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) and carbon dioxide and a little methane.

Not exact matches

Sharing long - term profits, or marketing secondary products collaboratively, such as heat, syngas, GHGs, etc., can improve the quality of any deal.

Enerkem, which uses a thermochemical trash - to - syngas process, was already awarded a $ 50 million Department of Energy grant, and also raised funding from trash giant Waste Management (s wm), Cycle Capital, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and BDR Capital.

By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used... →

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.

The next step is to get them operating on syngas [made from coal],» explained John Huggins, vice president of generation development at Mississippi Power.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Many systems have successfully reduced carbon dioxide to chemical and fuel precursors, such as carbon monoxide or a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas.

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.

We can fuel cars with methanol from destructive distillation of wood (or from wood syngas).

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

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.

Mississippi Power expects to start making syngas at Kemper in June, and to connect to the grid by the end of the year.

Most of the current generators run on diesel but gas engines could run on natural gas, biomethane, syngas or a few industrial waste gases.

Unlike biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion, Bio-SNG is formed by the conversion of thermally - derived syngas — i.e., via the gasification of biomass waste — into methane.

The choices are domestic heating, on - demand generation, transport fuel or industrial use (biomethane can do any of them, syngas is poisonous so is more limited).

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.

Traditionally syngas was derived from natural gas or coal, but there has been much research into solar fuels from the solar thermochemical splitting of water and carbon dioxide.

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.

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.

In addition to the production of hydrogen and oxygen, an SOEC could be used to create syngas by electrolyzing water vapor and carbon dioxide.»

The syngas is then drawn out of the second well.

• Full range of fuel flexibility includes natural gas, distillate oil, lean methane fuels, pure ethane, syngas, light crude oil, and a variety of other fuels

However, through careful regulation of the oxidant flow, the coal does not burn but rather separates into the syngas.

CO is far more toxic to handle than natural gas and syngas generators, while they can be made portable, are big and messy as they produce copious amounts of wood ash.

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.

DOE is seeking to facilitate creative, broad - application solutions to reduce the costs of coal conversion to chemical - grade hydrogen, liquid fuels, or high - hydrogen syngas, including scoping studies and small - scale R&D projects.

The third AOI (High Hydrogen Syngas Production) will begin exploration (through systems analysis and small - scale R&D) of novel technologies to reduce the cost of creating chemical - grade hydrogen and / or high - hydrogen syngas.

This removes nasty pollutants like sulfur and nitrogen oxides so that the syngas burns «cleaner» than coal, according to the Department of Energy.

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

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.

Many systems have successfully reduced carbon dioxide to chemical and fuel precursors, such as carbon monoxide or a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as 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.

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

It becomes an integrated CCGT when the fuel is syngas from a coal or biomass gasification reactor with exchange of energy flows between the gasification and CCGT plants.

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.