Sentences with word «syngas»

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.

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).

This process, called pyrolysis, also produces syngas and bio-oil that can be used as a renewable fuel.

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

«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.

Bolsen also points to estimates by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that the high pressure and high temperature required for syngas cleaning and catalytic conversion add about 30 to 40 cents to the cost of a gallon of fuel.

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals (earlier post), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica's technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

Currently, methane is industrially converted into higher grade chemicals using syngas as an intermediate.

How about feed them with syngas and produce H2 and CO2?

The US DOE is soliciting (DE-FOA-0001051) projects for up to $ 10 million in awards to target technological advancements to lower the cost of producing hydrogen and / or high - hydrogen syngas from coal for use in 90 % carbon capture power generation and / or gasification - based liquid (transportation) fuel production: methanol or diesel.

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

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.

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.

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

The BP / Davy fixed - bed FT process produces diesel, jet fuel (JP8) and naphtha from natural gas, biomass - or coal - derived syngas.

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).

Because CO2 is less concentrated and at much lower pressure in smokestack gases than it is in syngas, it won't spontaneously dissolve into a liquid solvent.

Start - up NewCO2fuel, one of over a dozen being promoted in the government initiative, is developing a technique to turn the common greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful fuel gas mixture called syngas.

Pilot plant integrating Carbona gasification with TIGAS syngas - to - gasoline process.

The RTI / Eastman syngas cleanup technology platform.

The RTI / Eastman syngas cleanup technology platform.

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.

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

«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.

To boost efficiency, they are ditching the catalyst entirely and enlisting bacteria to ferment syngas into ethanol.

This also yields syngas — a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen — plus a small amount of oil.

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.

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

You pour Selexol in at the top and pump syngas into the bottom at 600 pounds per square inch — about 20 times the pressure in car tires.

H2 and CO are the most immediate syngas products, which can be used to produce more H2 via the water - gas shift reaction, or combined via catalyst to produce methane (CH4).

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

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.

Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam refined the thermal solar syngas into jet fuel, using the Fischer - Tropsch method.

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

Advancing a process that takes syngas made from the gasification of municipal solid waste and turns it into drop - in jet and diesel fuel;

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.

The hydrogen content of typical raw syngas is roughly equivalent to the CO content, whereas most liquids and chemical production require at least a 2:1 ratio and high carbon capture IGCC configurations to make power require an even higher hydrogen content gas feed to the turbine.

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.

Moreover, technological gaps (e.g. using the Fischer - Tropsch process with solar - synthesized syngas) will be addressed.

Nexterra Energy is commercializing its biomass gasification technology to generate power and heat from by direct - firing syngas into high efficiency gas engines.