SYNGAS
April 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA'S Environmental Protection Agency is looking to add certain waste materials, now classified as hazardous, to their programme promoting alternative fuels.
The EPA is trying to expand the country's use of gasification, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into synthetic gas. The resulting "syngas" is comparable to natural gas.
Officials estimates that US petroleum refineries alone, could transfer up to 10 million tons of hazardous byproducts to gasification systems, including oil-bearing residuals ...
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