WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent Environmental Protection Agency ruling that sewage sludge gasification technology patented by MaxWest Environmental Systems Inc., is not an ...

Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous fuels into an energy dense mixture of gases or synthesis gas (syngas) and has been around for nearly 200 years. Some of the first applications of ...

Turning biomass like switchgrass and other plants into usable fuel is no easy feat. Gasification, one method of converting feedstocks to fuels, traditionally produces greenhouse gas emissions and ...

Successful testing of a new refractory lining material developed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) could lead to higher reliability and improved economics ...

GASIFIERS The gasifier is the central reactor in the gasification process. Numerous approaches to the design of vertical and horizontal gasifiers have been developed over the years. Feeding can be ...

A team of scientists from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Jaguar supercomputer, located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing ...

The production of hydrogen from biomass has garnered increasing attention, with thermochemical methods emerging as the most widely adopted approach. Among these, steam gasification stands out as a ...

Mike Hart, founder of Sierra Energy.. Photography by Cayce Clifford Editor’s Note: Sierra Energy is one of seven private companies Inc. identified that are driving development within seven key ...

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far The COMSYN project had two major targets: technical validation of the ...

Dirty it may be, but coal is cheap. For this simple reason, it remains the world's main source of power, providing a quarter of our primary energy and more than 40% of our electricity. And it will ...