Gasification, 2nd Edition,Christopher Higman,Maarten van der Burgt,ISBN9780750685283
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Gasification is essential to meet energy needs by utilizing cheaper alternative raw material like tar sand, and coal

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Key Features

Chemical engineers,Petroleum Engineers, Energy Engineers and Environmental engineers

Description

The gasification process converts any carbon-containing material into a synthesis gas composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel to generate electricity or steam or used as a basic chemical building block for a large number of uses in the petrochemical and refining industries. Gasification adds value to low or negative value feedstocks by converting them to marketable fuels and products.

This is the first book to cover gasification as a comprehensive topic, covering its many uses, from refining, to natural gas, to coal. This book provides an up-to-date overview of commercial processes and covers applications relevant to today's demands. The new edition is expanded and provides more detail on the integration issues for current generation, state-of-the-art Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (IGCC); CO2 capture in the IGCC context addressing the issues of pre-investment and retrofitting as well as defining what the term "CO2 capture ready" might mean in practice; issues of plant reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) including as evaluation of feedback from existing plants; implementation of fuel cell technology in IGCC concepts. All statistics, processes and projects, including descriptions of a number of processes not covered in the previous edition.

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Chemical engineers,Petroleum Engineers, Energy Engineers and Environmental engineers

Christopher Higman

Christopher Higman graduated in 1966 from the University of Oxford and received his M.Sc. from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His first contact with gasification was commissioning a producer gas plant in South Africa in 1968. He jopined Lurgi in 1975 and where he spent the next 27 years, mostly involved with gasification and related technologies. He has been responsible for design, project management and start up of a number of ammonia and methanol plants based on the gasification of heavy residues. Other projects for which he was responsible include the gas production units at both the Bintulu and Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids plants and the IGCC/hydrogen production facility at Shell’s Pernis, Netherlands refinery. Before taking up a corporate management position in 1997, he was Head of Gas Technology at Lurgi Öl·Gas·Chemie GmbH. 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.

Affiliations and Expertise

Lurgi Öl·Gas·Chemie, a leading European petrochemical plant contractor

Maarten van der Burgt

Gasification, 2nd Edition

Preface
Introduction
The Thermodynamics of Gasification
The Kinetics of Gasification and Reactor Theory
Feedstocks and Feedstock Characteristics
Gasification Processes
Practical Issues
Applications
Auxiliary Technologies
Economics, environmental, and Safety Issues
Gasification and the Future
Appendix A 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
List of Names and Abbreviations
Index
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Gasification