Description |
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
Contents |
1. How to Produce Gas from Coal? -- 1.1 What and Where Is Coal? -- 1.2 Coal Gasification -- 1.3 Technology of Gasification Processes -- 1.4 Interim Summary -- 2. How to Purify and to Condition Methanol Synthesis Gas? -- 2.1 Why and to What Extent Is Gas Purification Required? -- 2.2 Principles of Gas Purification -- 2.3 Different Types of Gas Purification Processes -- 2.4 Conditioning of Methanol Synthesis Gas -- 3. How to Synthezise Methanol and Alcohol Mixtures? -- 3.1 Methanol -- Its History, Its Properties and What Becomes of It -- 3.2 Fundamentals of Methanol Synthesis -- 3.3 Synthesis Loop and Its Various Appearances -- 3.4 Production of Mixed Alcohols -- 4. How to Obtain Pure Methanol? -- 4.1 Why Refining Methanol? -- 4.2 Basic Methanol Distillation Systems -- 4.3 Production of Grade AA Methanol -- 4.4 Purification of Mixed Alcohols -- 5. How to Process By-Products and Wastes? -- 5.1 Water and Aqueous Condensates -- 5.2 Hydrocarbon Condensates -- 5.3 Waste Gases -- 6. How to Supply Utilities to a Coal-to-Methanol Plant? -- 6.1 Air Separation Units -- 6.2 Steam and Electric Power -- 6.3 Water and Boiler Feed Water -- 6.4 Cooling Systems -- 6.5 Inert Gas -- 6.6 Instrument and Operating Air -- 6.7 Other Off-Sites -- 7. What Could a Methanol Plant Look Like? -- 7.1 Methanol from Lignite -- Application of the LURGI Pressure Gasification Process -- 7.2 Description of the Process Concept -- 8. Future Outlook |
Summary |
The production of methanol from coal is the subject of this book. The reader is led from coal gasification through all steps of gas purification and conditioning to gas synthesis and distillation. Also covered are the production and treatment of operating materials and the treatment and disposal of by-products and effluents. And not only is pure-methanol production described but also that of so-called fuel methanol (mixtures of methanol and higher alcohols). The purpose of the book is to outline all practical aspects of methanol production and to highlight the criteria used for selecting the various production stages. It is aimed not at describing what can be done but at providing the necessary know-how. Unlike most (if not all) other publications on this topic, one particular production route is considered in detail and schemes containing material and energy balances are presented |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Chemistry.
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Chemistry, Organic.
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Chemical engineering.
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Thermodynamics.
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Electrical engineering.
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Surfaces (Physics)
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Chemistry
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Chemistry, Organic
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Chemical Engineering
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Thermodynamics
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chemistry.
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organic chemistry.
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chemical engineering.
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thermodynamics.
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electrical engineering.
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Chemical engineering
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Chemistry
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Chemistry, Organic
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Electrical engineering
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Surfaces (Physics)
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Thermodynamics
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783662008959 |
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3662008955 |
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