
Gasification
Description
Key Features
* Ideal reference for anyone involved in operating or designing a gasification plant.
* Written in an easy-to-understand format with worked examples and a comprehensive glossary and bibliography.
Readership
Table of Contents
- Preface
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Development of Gasification
1.2 Gasification Today
2. The Thermodynamics of Gasification
2.1 Reactions
2.2 Thermodynamic Modelling of Gasification
2.3 Deductions from the Thermodynamic Model
2.4 Optimizing Process Conditions
3. The Kinetics of Gasification and Reactor Theory
3.1 Kinetics
3.2 Reactor Theory
3.3 Applications to Reactor Design
4. Feedstocks and Feedstock Characteristics
4.1 Coals and Coke
4.2 Liquid and Gaseous Feedstocks
4.3 Biomass
4.4 Wastes
5. Gasification Processes
5.1 Moving Bed Processes
5.2 Fluid Bed Processes
5.3 Entrained Flow Processes
5.4 Oil Gasification and Partial Oxidation of Natural Gas
5.5 Biomass Gasification
5.6 Gasification of Wastes
5.7 Black Liquor Gasification
5.8 Miscellaneous Gasification Processes
6. Practical Issues
6.1 Effect of Pressure
6.2 Pressurization of Coal
6.3 Coal Sizing and Drying
6.4 Reactor Design
6.5 Burners
6.6 Synthesis Gas Cooling
6.7 Particulate Removal
6.8 Process Measurement
6.9 Trace Compounds in Synthesis Gas
6.10 Choice of Oxidant
6.11 Corrosion Aspects
7. Applications
7.1 Chemicals
7.2 Synfuels
7.3 Power
8. Auxiliary Technologies
8.1 Oxygen Supply
8.2 Acid Gas Removal
8.3 CO Shift
8.4 Sulphur Recovery
9. Economics, Environmental and Safety Issues
9.1 Economics
9.2 Environmental
9.3 Safety
10. Gasification and the Future
Appendix A The Companion Website
Appendix B Conversion factors
Appendix C Emissions conversion factors
Appendix D Guidelines for Reporting Operating Statistics for Gasification Facilities
Appendix E Basis for calculations
Nomenclature
Names of Processes and Companies and Abbreviations
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 391
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2003
- Published: September 18, 2003
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780080477992
About the Authors
Christopher Higman
He is the author of various papers on gasification technology and is a contributor to “Ullmann’s Encyclopaedia of Industrial Chemistry”. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Oxford. He has a number of patents in the field.
At present Mr. Higman is researching into aspects of soot management in heavy oil gasification plants at the Engler-Bunte-Institute at the University of Karlsruhe.