Gas from coal

PPS fiber has excellent chemical resistance. Only strong oxidising agents cause degradation. As expected from inherent resia properties, PPS fiber is flame-resistant and has an autoignition temperature of 590°C as determined ia tests at the Textile Research Institute. PPS fiber is an excellent electrical iasulator it finds application ia hostile environments such as filter bags for filtration of flue gas from coal-fired furnaces, filter media for gas and liquid filtration, electrolysis membranes, protective clothing, and composites. 

Until the end of World War II, coal tar was the main source of these aromatic chemicals. However, the enormously increased demands by the rapidly expanding plastics and synthetic-fiber industries have greatly outstripped the potential supply from coal carbonization. This situation was exacerbated by the cessation of the manufacture in Europe of town gas from coal in the eady 1970s, a process carried out preponderantly in the continuous vertical retorts (CVRs), which has led to production from petroleum. Over 90% of the world production of aromatic chemicals in the 1990s is derived from the petrochemical industry, whereas coal tar is chiefly a source of anticorrosion coatings, wood preservatives, feedstocks for carbon-black manufacture, and binders for road surfacings and electrodes. 

J. C. Hoogendoom, "Gas from Coal for Synthesis of Hydrocarbons," paper presented at A TME 23 rd Annual Meeting, 1974. 

The major chemical difference between natural gas, crude oil, and coal is their hydrogen-to-carbon ratios. Coal is carbon-rich and hydrogen-poor, so to produce a synthetic liquid or gas from coal requires an increase in the hydrogen-to-carbon ratio. Coal s ratio of about 0.8 has to be raised to 1.4 to 1.8 for a... 

Oil well completed in Italy kerosine from the oil later used for lighting First distillation of gas from coal. 

This is a report on the basic work done in the laboratory to develop the catalysts for the methanation of synthetic gas from coal, and it also reports on the development of an applicable kinetic system. This report does not include any of the subsequent pilot plant test work. 

Rudolph, P. F., "The Lurgi Route to Substitute Natural Gas from Coal, ... 

Dirksen, H. A., Linden, H. R., Pipeline Gas From Coal by Methanation... 

Table 10.S. Composition of flue gas from coal-fired power plants [from N.-Y. Topsoe, CaTTech 1 (1997) 125],...

The production of natural gas from coal typically requires a stimulation with hydraulic fracturing. Basic studies on the effectiveness of various treatment methods for coal-beds have been presented in the literature [398,1424]. 

Several uncertainties in this periodic process have not been resolved. Pressure drop is too high at SV = 10,000 h 1 when packed beds of carbon are used. Study of carbon-coated structured packing or of monoliths with activated carbon washcoats is needed to see if lower pressure drops at 95% SO2 removal can be achieved. Stack gas from coal or heavy oil combustion contains parts-per-million or -per-billion quantities of toxic elements and compounds. Their removal in the periodically operated trickle bed must be examined, as well as the effect of these elements on acid quality. So far, laboratory experiments have been done to just 80°C use of acid for flushing the carbon bed should permit operation at temperatures up to 150°C. Performance of periodic flow interruption at such temperatures needs to be determined. The heat exchange requirements for the RTI-Waterloo process shown in Fig. 26 depend on the temperature of S02 scrubbing. If operation at 150°C is possible, gas leaving the trickle bed can be passed directly to the deNO, step without reheating. 

Direct production of methane from coal is called coal hydrogasification. Several technologies have been developed to make city gas from coal. The main reaction in coal hydrogasification is... 

Laboratory and pilot plant projects have demonstrated the feasibility of producing high-calorie gas from coal. 

S02 and NOx in flue gas from coal combustion contribute to smog and acid rain. Methods to remove these pollutants include alkaline wet scrubber systems that fix S02 to solid CaS04, and selective catalytic reduction by metal/metal oxide systems of NO/NOz to N2 and steam in the presence of ammonia. Particulate active carbons have also been used in flue gas decontamination, especially as they avoid costly scrubber processes and can operate at lower temperatures. The potential of active carbon fibers in this application has been explored by a... 

STEAG [Steinkohlen Elektrizitat A.G.] A process for producing both electric power and gas from coal, developed by the German company named. Installed at Leuna, Germany. 

The first gas company was established in 1812 in London to produce gas from coal and to light the Westminster Bridge. In 1816, the first gas plant for the manufacture of syngas from coal was built in the United States to light the streets of the city of Baltimore. By 1826, gas plants were also built to manufacture gas for lighting the streets of Boston and New York City. Soon thereafter, gas plants and distribution networks were built to light the streets of most major cities throughout the world. 

Like natural gas, the producer gas from coal is a clean fuel. Additionally, it is a rich source of chemicals. Coal-derived gas can also be recombined into liquid fuels, including high-grade transportation fuels, and a range of petrochemicals that serve as feedstock workhorses in the chemicals and refining industries. In contrast to conventional combustion, carbon dioxide exits a coal gasifier in a concentrated stream rather than diluted in a high volume of flue gas. This allows the carbon dioxide to be captured more effectively and then used... 

Just as oil, natural gas is also categorised as conventional and unconventional. Unlike crude oil, however, natural gas deposits are normally classified according to the economic or technical approach, i.e., all occurrences that are currently extract-able under economic conditions are considered conventional, whereas the rest are termed unconventional. Conventional natural gas includes non-associated gas from gas reservoirs in which there is little or no crude oil, as well as associated gas , which is produced from oil wells the latter can exist separately from oil in the formation (free gas, also known as cap gas, as it lies above the oil), or dissolved in the crude oil (dissolved gas). Unconventional gas is the same substance as conventional natural gas, and only the reservoir characteristics are different and make it usually more difficult to produce. Unconventional gas comprises natural gas from coal (also known as coal-bed methane), tight gas, gas in aquifers and gas hydrates (see Fig. 3.17). It is important to mention in this context so-called stranded gas , a term which is applied to occurrences whose extraction would be technically feasible, but which are located in remote areas that at the moment cannot (yet) be economically developed (see Section 3.4.3.1). 

Because of NGC s co-occurrence with coal, the targeted coal seam locations and their geographical distribution are typically well known from coal assessments. Natural gas from coal is produced by reducing the natural pressure within the coal seam by creating fracture systems (so-called fracs ) to allow the gas to release from the coal and then flow through a well to the surface. 

Resource estimates and current production Natural gas from coal is present wherever coal is found and, as coal is found in great quantities throughout the world (see Section 3.5), natural gas from coal may represent a large energy source. As for all types of unconventional gas, the published reserve and resource figures show great variations and are often based on estimations from incomplete data. In addition, as... 

Properties and extraction processes Tight-formation gas is natural gas trapped in low-porosity (7 to 12%), low-permeability reservoirs with an average in-situ permeability of less than 0.1 millidarcy (mD), regardless of the type of the reservoir rock tight gas usually comprises gas from tight sands (i.e., from sandstone or limestone reservoirs) and shale gas. Sometimes tight gas also comprises natural gas from coal and deep gas from reservoirs below 4500 m. Shale gas is produced from reservoirs predominantly composed of shale rather than from more conventional sandstone or limestone reservoirs a particularity of shale gas is that gas shales are often... 

NAFTA n.a. NEA NEDC NG NGC NGL NGPL NMVOC NOC NUTS North American Free Trade Agreement Not available Nuclear Energy Agency New European Driving Cycle Natural gas Natural gas from coal Natural-gas liquids Natural gas plant liquids Non-methane volatile organic carbons National Oil Company Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics... 

The hydroformylation of alkenes was accidentally discovered by Roelen while he was studying the Fischer-Tropsch reaction (syn-gas conversion to liquid fuels) with a heterogeneous cobalt catalyst in the late thirties. In a mechanistic experiment Roelen studied whether alkenes were intermediates in the "Aufbau" process of syn-gas (from coal, Germany 1938) to fuel. He found that alkenes were converted to aldehydes or alcohols containing one more carbon atom. It took more than a decade before the reaction was taken further, but now it was the conversion of petrochemical hydrocarbons into oxygenates that was desired. It was discovered that the reaction was not catalysed by the supported cobalt but in fact by HCo(CO)4 which was formed in the liquid state. 

Inst, "Economics of Fuel Gas from Coal , McGraw-Hill, NY (1950) 7) A.J. Johnson... 

Valstar, J. M., Van Den Berg, P. J., and Oyserman, J., Chem. Eng. Sci. 30,723-728 (1975). Vatcha, S. R., Analysis and Design of Methanation Processes in the Production of Substitute Natural Gas from Coal, Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1976). Villadsen, J. V., and Michelsen, M. L., Solution of Differential Equation Models by Polynomial Approximation." Prentice-Hall, New York, 1978. 

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