Plasma Gasification Expert What does a plasma gasification expert or plasma gasification consultant do? First, let’s define plasma gasification. Plasma gasification refers to an extreme thermal process using plasma. Plasma is a fourth state of matter in which an ionised gaseous substance becomes highly conductive. Unlike the other three states of matter (solid, gas and […]
What does a Waste to Gas expert or consultant do? Waste-to-Gas technology is used to covert waste into gaseous energy products like syngas, biogas, or flue gas. There are many types of waste, including biomass waste, municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste, sewage sludge, and used tires that can be used as feedstocks. These wastes […]
Torrefaction is the roasting of any solid biomass in an inert atmosphere. Some of the volatile components of the feedstock is driven off in form of Syngas that can be used to fuel the process plus generate thermal or electrical energy. The solid part is either an ideal carbon neutral substitute fuel for coal or […]
What does a biomass gasification expert or gasification consultant do? Gasification is the process of turning some variety of feedstocks into higher value products. This is most often done by converting a material containing carbon (like coal, biomass, waste, petroleum coke, etc.) —into a syngas. This syngas is then burned to produce electricity, or it […]
Within biofuels, examples of emerging technologies are: torrefaction to produce biocoal slow pyrolysis to produce biochar fast pyrolysis to produce pyrolysis oil and biochar hydrothermal carbonization to produce hydrochar hydrothermal liquefaction to produce biocrude stream treated to produce black pellets gasification to produce producer gas and/or syngas. With such early-stage ventures, an important early task […]
By Lorenz Bauer, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting. The methanol and bioeconomies are two of the buzz words of the last decade. They had their origin in the “peak oil” scare and the predicted sky rocketing oil prices. They were further boosted by environmental concerns about pollution and climate change. Both economies are continuing to grow; […]
Landfills contain a toxic stew of biomass materials from old tires to food wastes to animal manure. It is literally the bottom of the rubbish barrel. The US EPA estimates that 250 million tons of municipal solid wastes are sent to landfills each year. These materials have a wide range of chemicals in them, including […]
In general, low-carbon technologies fall into two separate categories: I. RES Forces – the direct production of electricity from a natural force that is not combusted, for example, wind, solar, hydro or geothermal II. RES Fuels – the production of electricity from the combustion of biomass-based materials; such materials are called biofuels and resulting electricity […]