<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This chemical reaction is exothermic. Recover the heat and use it in the reaction as super heated steam to gasify the charcoal. C+h2o reacts at 200c. Apparently sustainable. </div><div><br><br></div><div><br>On Apr 12, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Viswanathan KS <<a href="mailto:viswanathanks@gmail.com">viswanathanks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Karve wrote<div>Quote</div><div>--------. <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">When hot charcoal is treated with steam, it produces coal</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">gas, consisting of a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. We have</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">used this reaction in an experimental stove, in which the coal gas is</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">used as fuel. Can anybody suggest a simple method of removing carbon</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">monoxide from coal gas?</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Unquote</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Is this reaction sustainable or will the charcoal fire get extinguished due to prolonged passage of steam?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The answer to this question should determine the continuation of the discussion.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Henri Naths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c_hnaths@telusplanet.net" target="_blank">c_hnaths@telusplanet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.701961);text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">Hello Anand</p><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.701961);text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Some of the CO can be removed using the water gas reaction. This well known stoichiometry of the water the water-gas shift reaction is : co+h20 <=>h2+co2+heat ( exothermic)</span></p><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.701961);text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In an efficient heat integrated scheme , the heat of the reaction can be recovered as superheated high pressure steam.</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.701961);text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">H. </span></p><p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.701961);text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></p><br><br></font></span></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Apr 11, 2015, at 9:14 PM, Anand Karve <<a href="mailto:adkarve@gmail.com" target="_blank">adkarve@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Coal gas as automotive fuel</span><br><span>Agriculture, forests and urban centres in India produce annually</span><br><span>about 1000 million tons of combustible waste biomass. Its energy</span><br><span>content is almost 3 times as much as the petroleum that we currently</span><br><span>use in our country. Samuchit Enviro Tech developed a simple and</span><br><span>nonpolluting technology for converting combustible biomass into</span><br><span>charcoal. When hot charcoal is treated with steam, it produces coal</span><br><span>gas, consisting of a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. We have</span><br><span>used this reaction in an experimental stove, in which the coal gas is</span><br><span>used as fuel. Can anybody suggest a simple method of removing carbon</span><br><span>monoxide from coal gas?</span><br><span>Yours</span><br><span>A.D.Karve</span><br><span></span><br><span>***</span><br><span>Dr. A.D. 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