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Chemical Process Research Department substitute-natural-gas supply R and D status report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5600687
The status report presents tactical objectives, goals, accomplishments, strategies, and contract status of ongoing SNG supply-related projects in GRI's Chemical Process Research Program as described in the 1987 GRI Plan. In the Coal Gasification Process area, projects include determination of the physical and chemical properties of finely ground de-ashed coal; a coal test program in a pressurized, fluidized-bed, ash-agglomerating process development unit; development of a CNG acid-gas-removal process; engineering evaluation of advanced coal-gasification processes; gathering of catalyst fabrication and performance data for the Direct Methanation process; and development of a design data base for coal gasification materials of construction. In-situ coal-gasification projects include economic evaluation of underground coal gasification (UCG) technology and UCG field testing at Hanna, Wyoming. The Methane From Waste project area supports research on anaerobic digestion of community wastes to pipeline-quality methane and field testing of the Refcom technology. In the Coal Sciences project area, funded projects deal with C-C cleavage, structure/reactivity relationships, modeling studies of coal reactivity characteristics and related aspects of catalytic and radical-cation chemistries, and advanced analytical techniques for characterization of coal materals.
Research Organization:
Gas Research Inst., Chicago, IL (USA)
OSTI ID:
5600687
Report Number(s):
PB-88-113048/XAB; GRI-87/0135
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English