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Gasifiers: Types, Operational Principles, and Commercial Forms

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Coal and Biomass Gasification

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Carbonaceous solid materials are converted into gaseous fuel through the gasification process. A limited supply of steam, air, oxygen, or a combination of these serves as gasifying agent. Depending upon the gasifying agent used, the fuel gas will contain mainly hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, higher hydrocarbons, and nitrogen (if air is used). In gasification, different technologies are used depending upon the requirement. Technologies used for gasification can broadly be classified into four groups; fixed bed or moving bed gasification, fluidized bed gasification, entrained bed gasification, and plasma gasification. In the present chapter, a detail discussion on the design, working principle, merits and demerits of different types of gasifiers are presented. Some of the important commercial gasifiers installed worldwide are also discussed.

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  1. CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, 713209, West Bengal, India

    Chanchal Loha, Malay K. Karmakar & Pradip K. Chatterjee

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Santanu De

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    Avinash Kumar Agarwal

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

    V. S. Moholkar

  4. Bio-Fuels Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Loha, C., Karmakar, M.K., De, S., Chatterjee, P.K. (2018). Gasifiers: Types, Operational Principles, and Commercial Forms. In: De, S., Agarwal, A., Moholkar, V., Thallada, B. (eds) Coal and Biomass Gasification. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7335-9_3

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