[Gasification] Syn Gas
Pete&Sheri
spaco at baldwin-telecom.net
Thu Dec 30 21:08:19 CST 2010
Okay, guys, I am no expert at all about this gas thing, but I think you
are all missing the opportunity to fix this thing.
I will give you a parallel that may explain what I mean:
There are many folks like me around the world who work with a material
that we call "steel" About the only thing common to the many, many
types of "steel" out there is that they all contain some amount of iron
some amount of carbon. We are pretty comfortable with the term, even
though we all know that there are many kinds of "steel". What we
(collectively and before my time) did to avoid all these confrontations
was to give names to the differing contents of the different materials.
So, when we get into serious discussions where precision in decribing
the metalurgy is important, we use an appropriate, agreed-upon name to
communicate the analysis of the subject material. Sure, there are
different systems for describing the content, but we have learned to
live with the systems and they work. You don't see very many
fabricators arguing about the analysis of 1018, because that number
describes that particular steel; one that is a plain carbon steel with
approx. 0.18% Carbon, the balance being mostly iron.. One can go to any
one of a number of sources and find what 's in AISI 1018 steel. Or, in
another system, tool steels are often graded by a letter system, such as
W1, O1, A2, This system focuses on the method of quenching that
material; W=Water, O=Oil, A= Air. The SAE has a numbering system that
is focused on materials used in automobiles, and this system parallels
AISI in many cases.
And don't flame me for missing ASTM, etc. ---- I am simply tring to
get a point across.
Why not simply develop such a system (or two) for this range of
combustible gases that you are talking about? And then ":call a spade a
spade" and be done with it.
Pete Stanaitis
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