Syngas from Solid Fuels Coal, Biomass

Syngas from Solid Fuels (Coal, Biomass) 

1 Basic Principles and Reactions of Syngas Production from Solid Fuels 

Coal gasification to syngas is a complex network of parallel and consecutive reactions. Some basic aspects have already been examined in Section 5.1.5.2 and are treated in more detail in conjunction with the gasification of Chinese reed (Section 6.1.4.1) and the blast furnace process (Section 6.5). If we assume, for simplicity, that coal is represented by carbon ( C ) the main reactions taking place are  

The direct oxidation of carbon to CO is not considered here because in technical processes the primarily formed CO is rapidly oxidized in a consecutive homogeneus reaction to CO2. Thus Eq. (6.2.5) summarizes the oxidation of C to CO2 (intrinsically only favored at low temperatures. Topic 6.2.1), and homogeneous CO oxidation. 

Topic 6.2.1 Intrinsic reactions between carbon and oxygen 

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