"Gasification for Practical Applications" ed. by Yongseung Yun

This book provides the practical information for researchers and graduate students who want to review the current situation, to upgrade, and to bring in a new idea to the conventional gasification technologies.

Gasification is a key technology in converting coal, biomass, and wastes to useful high-value products. Until renewable energy can provide affordable energy hopefully by the year 2030, gasification can bridge the transition period by providing the clean liquid fuels, gas, and chemicals from the low grade feedstock.
Gasification still needs many upgrades and technology breakthroughs. It remains in the niche market, not fully competitive in the major market of electricity generation, chemicals, and liquid fuels that are supplied from relatively cheap fossil fuels.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Coal and Coal Related Materials Gasification
1 Considerations for the Design and Operation of Pilot-Scale Coal Gasifiers
2 Gasification Studies on Argentine Solid Fuels
3 Gasification Reactions of Metallurgical Coke and Its Application - Improvement of Carbon Use Efficiency in Blast Furnace
Section 2 Biomass Gasification
4 Gasification of Wood Bio-Oil
5 Biomass Downdraft Gasifier Controller Using Intelligent Techniques
Section 3 Wastes Gasification
6 Supercritical Water Gasification of Municipal Sludge: A Novel Approach to Waste Treatment and Energy Recovery
7 Thermal Plasma Gasification of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
8 Environmental Impacts of Hydrogen Production by Hydrothermal Gasification of a Real Biowaste
Section 4 Cost and Economics of Gasification
9 Gasification a Driver to Stranded Resource Development
10 Cost Estimates of Coal Gasification for Chemicals and Motor Fuels
Section 5 Modeling and Simulation of Gasification
11 Optimization of Waste Plastics Gasification Process Using Aspen-Plus
12 Neural Network Based Modeling and Operational Optimization of Biomass Gasification Processes
13 Lower Order Modeling and Control of Alstom Fluidized Bed Gasifier