TABLE OF CONTENTS For those interested in following up some of the ideas expressed in this book, we have set up a website, http://www.gasification.higman.de, which includes both programs for typical gasification calculations and a literature data bank. The content of the website at the time of going to press of this book covers the following.
Gasify.exe performs calculations for gasification for coal, oil and natural gas. It is an equilibrium calculation based on the information contained in Chapter 2. There is a wide selection of calculation modes, such as fixed reactant quantities with variable gasification temperature, fixed gasification temperature with variable oxygen demand, and others.
Proxult.exe will convert proximate and ultimate coal analyses between "as received" (ar), "moisture free" (mf), "ash free" (af) and "moisture and ash free" (maf) bases, as described in Section 4.1. Further, LHV and HHV on any basis may be converted into each other. In the absence of heat of combustion data, the heating value will be generated using the proximate and ultimate analyses.
Heatloss.exe will calculate the loss of heat in a membrane wall under different internal conditions (slagging/non-slagging) using the criteria described in Section 6.4.
Quench.exe provides a means of back-calculating the temperature at which the CO shift reaction and the CO 2 methane reforming reaction have frozen during cooling, as described in Section 6.8.
Viscos.exe estimates the viscosity of residual oil fractions, as described in Section 4.2.1.
All these programs are executable files and can be downloaded for...
