[Gasification] Tennessee company - pyrolysis biochar + hydrogen ($1.75 per gallon diesel-equivalent?)

[Anand Karve]

Dear Rex,
thanks.
A.D.Karve

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Rex Zietsman <rex at whitfieldfarm.co.za> wrote:
> Dear Dr Karve
>
> Methane is CH4. The methane is compressed, heated and processed with steam
> (H2O) through a catalyst to produce CO and H2 in a "steam methane reformer".
> The gases are then passed through a water gas shift reactor where the CO
> reacts further with H2O to produce CO2 and more H2. The gases are cooled and
> passed through a pressure swing absorber where the hydrogen is separated
> from the remaining gas. CO2 and excess H2O are vented.
>
> In gasification, the reactions produce CO, CO2, H2 and H2O naturally. These
> are diluted with N2 if air is used. This syngas can be cleaned up and passed
> through a WGS reaction to convert the CO to CO2 and H2O to maximize H2
> production.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Rex Zietsman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anand Karve [mailto:adkarve at gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 May 2014 04:00 AM
> To: biochar-policy at yahoogroups.com; Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and
> gasification
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Tennessee company - pyrolysis biochar + hydrogen
> ($1.75 per gallon diesel-equivalent?)
>
> Dear Greg,
> the major component of natural gas is methane. How does the fertilizer
> industry separate out hydrogen from methane? The process must be consuming a
> lot of energy.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear List,
>> Already in the first decade of the last century, Haber in Germany
>> developed a process for making ammonia by combining nitrogen in the
>> air with hydrogen. I was told that this process is used even today by
>> fertilizer manufacturers. Where does the fertilizer industry get its
>> hydrogen from?
>> Yours
>> A.D.Karve
>>
>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:59 PM, John Bonitz john.bonitz at gmail.com
>> [biochar-policy] <biochar-policy at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Return of the Pyromaniax: Proton Power and its hydrous pyrolysis
>>> process for super low-cost hydrogen, by Jim Lane, May 8, 2014
>>>
>>> http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/05/08/return-of-the-pyroma
>>> niax-proton-power-and-its-hydrous-pyrolysis-process-for-super-low-cos
>>> t-hydrogen/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John Bonitz
>>> Pittsboro, NC
>>>
>>> 919-360-2492 | LinkedIn
>>>
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