[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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