Description: Gasification involves the conversion of carbon sources without combustion to syngas, which can be used as a fuel itself or further processed to synthetic fuels. The technology provides a potentially more efficient means of energy generation than direct combustion. This book provides an overview of gasification science and engineering and the production of synthetic fuels by gasific...

Application of excessive animal manure to the land may cause some environmental problems such as eutrophication of surface waters, degradation of ground water quality, and threats to human health. This paper reports an experimental study on the technology of biomass gasification to treat animal waste by analysing the effects of key operating parameters on gasification. In this research, dairy m...

We have used Gibbs ensemble and histogram-reweighting Monte Carlo techniques to obtain the phase behavior of water and aqueous mixtures at high pressures. These calculations are relevant for the design of high-pressure separation processes, such as supercritical fluid extraction and supercritical water oxidation. In particular, we have obtained the phase behavior of several simple point charge ...

-Deterioration in heat transfer at supercritical water cooling in a vertical pipe is numerically analyzed. The calculation is based on a parabolic solver for steady-state equations in r-z two dimensions, a Ice model for turbulence and a steam table library for physical properties of supercritical water. Calculation results agree with the experimental data of Yamagata et al. It is found that hea...

A review is given of gasification processes for solid fuels with special emphasis on waste gasification. Although the co-current moeing bed gasifier has not been under consideration for a long time, it offers interesting possibilitiesJor waste gasification. Some operational data are given. Two potential applications are discussed--gasification of agricultural waste (maize cobs) in the rural are...

The rearrangement of alpha- and beta-pinene was studied under microwave irradiation in near-critical water and supercritical lower aliphatic alcohols, with the aim of identifying the pathway of alpha- and beta-pinene isomerization. Generally, two pathways occur, pyrolysis on the one and acidolysis on the other hand, whereby acidolysis is predominant in the case of near-critical water and the se...

Robust and highly effective Fe-substituted and non-substituted La-Hexaaluminate methane combustion catalysts have been prepared via coprecipitation in "water-pools" of Water/Oil microemulsions with dual nonionic surfactants, followed by ethanol supercritical drying and post-annealing.