Plasma Chemical Gasification of Solid Fuel with Mineral Mass Processing

The article presents a plasma chemical technology for processing solid fuels, using examples of bituminous and brown coals. Thermodynamic and experimental investigation of the technology was made. The technology allows producing synthesis gas from the coal organic mass and valuable components (technical silicon, ferrosilicon, aluminum, and carbon silicon, as well as microelements of rare metals, such as uranium, molybdenum, vanadium, etc.) from the mineral mass. The thusly produced highcalorific synthesis gas can be used for synthesis of methanol, as a high-calorific reducing gas instead of blast-furnace coke as well as power gas for thermal power plants.

Authors:

• V. E. Messerle
• O. A. Lavrichshev
• A. B. Ustimenko

Keywords:

• Gasification
• mineral mass
• organic mass
• plasma
• processing
• solid fuel
• synthesis gas
• valuable components.

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