What is “Waste Gasification?
” Waste Gasification is similar to Biomass Gasification, the only difference being the materials going into the gasification plant. Both systems operate in one of several differing manners. Some gasification systems heat the waste to high temperatures inside of a retort with minimal oxygen (creating what is known as “synthesis gas” which is a mixture of mostly Biomethane and carbon monoxide). Gasifiers typically use a combustion reaction with some of the waste as fuel inside of the gasifier that produces the heat required for gasification. Others gasifiers use superheated steam as a catalyst to gasify red-hot coke or charcoal (resulting in “water gas”, which is carbon monoxide and hydrogen). Whichever technology or gasifier used, waste gasification turns waste into a fuel that can then be used to fuel a cogeneration, trigeneration, or combined cycle power plant. In the chemical industry, synthesis gas is a 2:1 mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Synthesis gas is the main product p
