Renewed Interest and the Incentives for Commercialization

Throughout the 1980s, researchers and industry came to recognize some of the environmental benefits of gasification technology. More restrictive and stringent environmental standards aimed at controlling power plant emissions, and domestic and industrial waste landfills, and an increased 

2 Cyclic gas generators converted coke, a by-product of high-temperature pyrolysis process, to a synthetic gas by alternatively exposing the coke to air to provide heat and to steam to produce a gas that burned with a blue flame. The coal gas was know as blue water gas (Probstein, R. F. and Hicks, R. E., Synthetic Fuels, McGraw-Hill, 1982, p. 7). 

3Klass, D. L., Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals, Academic Press, 1998, p. 271. 

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