Gasifier countries

The success of the Sasol project is attributed to the availabiUty of cheap coal and the rehabiUty of the selected components. Plants using Lurgi or Koppers-Totzek gasifiers for making chemicals are located in AustraUa, Turkey, Greece, India, and Yugoslavia, among other countries. 

Sustained demand for fuel gas and petrochemical feedstocks In countries where natural gas or naphtha was not readily available has occasioned progressive refinement of several gasifier systems that were first Introduced Into commercial practice In the mid-1930s and now have a proven record of performance In numerous contemporary plants. 

The global objective of the project is to evaluate, to laboratory scale, pilot plant and demonstration plant, the real possibilities (technical and economic viability) of gasifying several types of residual and cropped biomass that are (or could be) produced in our country in order to generate power or electricity by internal combustion in gas engines. 

T.H. Twente Develops a downdraft gasifier for Third World countries. 

Various universities are also active in this field. At the university of Twente, The Netherlands, a downdraft gasifier is being developed for Third World countries[38]. ... 

As other speakers at this symposium have described, the use of fuel gas produced by biomass or solid waste gasifiers can reduce the use of petroleum fuels in stationary combustion equipment (oil-fired boilers, diesel engines for electric generators or irrigation pumps). Stationary engines and furnaces, however, are not the only big users of petroleum fuels in lesser developed countries (or LDCs, the term we will employ to describe the 88 poorest nations in the world). As is the case for industrialized nations, lesser developed countries need liquid transportation fuels, and probably will for a long time. Brookhaven reports that most LDCs have increased their dependence on highway transport over the last two decades (lb). 

There are about a dozen gasification processes under development in this country and in Europe. A number of them have reached the stage of large pilot plants. The one that is probably closest to commercialization is the Texaco partial oxidation process. Texaco and Shell have both licensed partial oxidation processes for use with a variety of petroleum feeds since the late 19A0 s, and over 250 gasifiers have been installed, largely for making... 

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