Entrained Flow Gasifiers – the Thyssenkrupp PRENFLO Technology (2015)

Gasification is a process of thermal conversion of solid carbonaceous materials into a gaseous fuel called syngas. Coal gasification is an efficient technology for a range of systems for producing low emissions electricity and other high value products such as chemicals, synthetic fuels, etc. The paper presents the ThyssenKrupp’s PRENFLO gasification process which is designed…

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HTW-based Gasification of Indonesian Low Rank Coal as an Alternative for an Efficient and Sustainable Production of Chemicals

The demand on chemicals such as ammonia, urea, methanol etc. is continuously increasing worldwide; however, the pressure on the production costs leads to both: (i) looking for more efficient units and technologies, and (ii) looking for alternative resources. Recently natural gas (NG), being the main source for production of chemicals, became extremely expensive or sometimes…

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Book on Carbon Capture Technologies, published by ELSEVIER, UK (2014)

The book Combustion of Pulverised Coal in a Mixture of Oxygen and Recycled Flue Gas focuses on a niche technology, combustion of coal in an oxygen rich environment, which is one approach to obtaining ‘clean coal,’ by making it easier to capture carbon that is released in the combustion process. Toporov’s book breaks ground on…

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