
Coal Gasification and Its Applications
Description
Key Features
- Provides a perspective for engineers and scientists who analyze and improve components of the coal conversion processes
- Describes the fundamentals of gasification, gasification technologies, and gas cleaning processes
- Covers gasification kinetics, which was largely ignored by other gasification books
Readership
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1, The Nature of Coal
Geologic origin of coal
Coal analysis and classification
Coal as a porous material
Spontaneous combustion
Reserves, Resources and Production
Chapter 2, Non-gasification Coal Use
Power production from pulverized coal plants.
Supercritical and ultrasupercritical power production.
Emissions
Carbon capture from pulverized coal plants
Amine absorption
Oxycombustion
Membranes, adsorbents and other techniques
Pyrolysis
Chapter 3, Gasification Fundamentals
Reactions
Thermodynamics
Kinetics
Gasification catalysts
Slagging
Chapter 4, Gasifiers
Moving bed
Lurgi
BGL
Fluidized bed
Winkler
HTW
Transport Reactor
ABB
KRW
U-Gas
Carbon dioxide acceptor
Co-Gas
Hydrane
Hygas
UW
Entrained Flow
GE
Conoco E-Gas
Shell
Siemens
Koppers Totzek
Other types
Achemix
Chapter 5. In-situ Gasification
Chapter 6, Gas Cleaning
Fly ash removal
Hydrocyclones
Candle filters
Acid gas removal
COS conversion
Rectisol
Selexol
Amine absorption
Solid adsorbents
Conversion of hydrogen sulfide to sulfur
Mercury and halides
Chapter 7, Water-gas shift
High temperature shift
Sour gas shift
Low temperature shift
Chapter 8, IGCC
A related power plant: NGCC
Without carbon capture
With carbon capture
Water-gas shift approach
Oxycombustion approach
Chapter 9, Syngas to Chemicals
Ammonia
Methanol
Methanol to Olefins
Chapter 10, Syngas to Fuels
SNG
Methanol to gasoline
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
Refining Fischer-Tropsch fluids
Chapter 11, Carbon Sequestration
EOR
Enhanced coal bed methane
Saline aquifers
Chapter 12, Economics
Product details
- No. of pages: 416
- Language: English
- Copyright: © William Andrew 2010
- Published: November 30, 2010
- Imprint: William Andrew
- eBook ISBN: 9781437778519
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323281881
About the Authors
David Bell
Brian Towler

University of Wyoming
Chair of Dept, 2004 - 2008
Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Petroleum Engineering, 2009
Associate Editor and Board member of Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2007-present.
Affiliations and Expertise
Maohong Fan
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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Peter T. Thu Apr 05 2018
Coal Gasification and its Applications
Book was well written and covers coal gasification in depth. The book tries to cover the applications, but there only scratches the surface.