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Biomass Gasification - Opportunities, Trends and Challenges
Biomass gasification refers to the incomplete combustion of biomass, resulting in production of combustible gases consisting of Carbon monoxide (CO), Hydrogen (H2) and traces of Methane (CH4). The resulting mixture is called producer gas (and a variant of producer gas is called syngas). Producer gas can be used to run internal combustion engines (both compression and spark ignition), can be used as substitute for furnace oil in direct heat applications and can be used to produce, in an economically viable way, methanol – an extremely attractive chemical which is useful both as fuel for heat engines as well as chemical feedstock for industries.Market Need
A process that can convert all types of cheap and zero cost biomass waste into fuel
Trends
• The worldwide gasification industry has grown by 10% per year during 2000-2006
• The 2007 World Gasification Database shows that current gasification capacity has grown to 56,238 megawatts thermal (MWth) of syngas output at 144 operating plants with a total of 427 gasifiers (operating plus spares).
• Gasification plants are now operating in 27 countries. The Asia/Australia region, with 34 percent of the total capacity, is now the leading region in the world for syngas production. Rapid growth in China is fueling this surge.
posted by Ecacofonix at
5:58 AM
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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