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    II Carbone del Sulcis: possibilitĂ  di utilizzazione

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    Il notevole interesse che si sta ridestando in Italia intorno al carbone Ăš stato suscitato dalla crisi di un modello di sviluppo industriale basato quasi esclusivamente sul petrolio. La rivoluzione del mercato del petrolio del 1973 con conseguente rialzo del prezzo del greggio di ca. dieci volte negli ultimi sette anni ha messo davanti ad una pressante necessitĂ  di riconversione soprattutto quei paesi come l'Italia, quasi totalmente dipendenti da altri paesi per questa materia prima. La liquefazione del carbone a combustibile mediante idrogenazione Ăš un processo cha ha raggiunto un considerevole livello tecnologico. Tuttavia, per la realizzazione anche su piccola scala di questo processo molti problemi sono da affrontare: la rappresentativitĂ  dei campioni di carbone provenienti dalle varie miniere del Sulcis, l'imprevedibilitĂ  del costo effettivo di questo carbone, l'approvvigionamento e il costo dell'idrogeno. Per questo, Ăš evidente che una utilizzazione del carbone del Sulcis di questo tipo ha senso solo se effettuata nelle immediate vicinanze delle miniere sia delle centrali elettriche o degli eventuali utilizzatori degli olii prodotti

    Coal-oil mixture from a synthetic oil obtained by hydroliquefaction of a South African coal

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    A coal-oil mixture (COM) was prepared from a South African coal and a synthetic oil derived from the same coal by hydroliquefaction. The settling and rheological properties of this mixture were compared with those of a mixture of the same coal with fuel oil. The synthetic oil mixture showed greater settling stability, comparable with that of a commercial COM containing additives. The increased stability may be related to polar compounds present in the oil and on the coal surface

    Tar reduction in downdraft biomass gasifier using a primary method

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    This work present a novel primary method, for tar reduction in downdraft gasification. The principle of this new technology is to change the fluid dynamic behaviour of the mixture, formed by pyrolysis product and gasification agent in combustion zone; allowing a homogeneous temperature distribution in radial direction in this reaction zone. To achieve the change in the fluid dynamic behaviour of the mixture; the entry of gasification agent to combustion zone is oriented by means of wall nozzles in order to form a swirl flow. This modification in combination with the extension of the reduction zone, will allow, to increases the efficiency of the tar thermal cracking inside the gasifier and the extension of the Boudouard reactions. Consequently, the quantity of tar passing through the combustion zone without cracking and the concentration of tar in the final gas, decrease significantly in relation with the common value obtained for this type of reactor, without affecting significantly the heating value of the producer gas. In this work is presented a new design for 15 kW downdraft gasification reactor, with this technology implemented, the tar content obtained in the experiments never overcome 10 mg/Nm3, with a lower heating value of 3.97 MJ/Nm3
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