How to Use gasification in a Sentence

gasification

noun

• On Friday, the state approved Bowie’s request to nix the coal gasification plan.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• Diesel from the Dale plant wouldn't be competing with natural gas in the same way coal gasification does, and in this case ratepayers are not taking on the risk.
  — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• The new process is based around gasification, which turns solid fuel into gas.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• An old gasification plant in West Terre Haute, Indiana is getting a new life.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• But the coal-gasification plant left the ground saturated with a hazardous byproduct, coal tar.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• But Daryl Lamppa's most innovative product is the one with the new patent — the wood-burning gasification furnace that heats homes, and which has a new tax credit to shave nearly $1,500 off the price.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• The process, called coal-to-gas or coal gasification, has been criticized by Chinese and foreign scholars and policy makers.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
• Coal gasification, on the other hand, takes coal and turns it into something similar to natural gas.
  — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2018
• There is gasification, which uses garbage to make gas that can be used to generate electricity.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
• Sitharaman also announced the setting up of four pilot coal-gasification and coal-to-chemical projects.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
• The basic technology for turning coal into other fuels, known as gasification, has been around since the 1920s.
  — Michael Lemonick, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2010
• The bottom row of primary jets (7) are used not to fuel the fire but rather to induce a process called gasification, which converts the fuel in the wood into a gaseous form that burns more efficiently than burning the wood directly.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2017
• The solvents will break down polymers into shorter chains, much like pyrolysis and gasification do, to then be reformed into new plastic.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2021
• With the Lamppa furnace, a gasification chamber keeps a minimum temperature of around 1,000 degrees to burn all those gases.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• The liquid hydrogen will be produced in Latrobe Valley, Victoria through a brown coal gasification process.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
• After about a year of gasifying coal, the plant was ordered to switch to natural gas because the electricity it coal gasification produced was too expensive.
  — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• To provide power for the woolen mill, the Broad Brook Company operated a coal gasification plant on the site, which resulted in contamination.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 4 May 2021
• Another way to convert waste to energy is through gasification, a process that melts plastics at very high temperatures in the near-absence of oxygen (which means toxins like dioxins and furans aren’t formed).
  — Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
• In fact, no other facilities in the country use this coal gasification technology.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2021
• But with natural gas so cheap, gasification plants aren’t competitive.
  — Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
• In 1988, federal investigators found chemicals associated with coal tar in the aquifer and said the probable source was the former gasification plant.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Plastic-to-fuel conversion involves pyrolysis or gasification, both of which use heat and chemical processes to break down plastic waste into products that are turned into fuels.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Last month, concerns about soil contamination under the airport surfaced, including coal tar, a by-product of coal gasification plants that existed in virtually every American city at the turn of the last century.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2022
• In fact, it was designated an E.P.A. Superfund site because of coal-gasification plants, paint factories, and other industrial uses located along its banks.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
• Expectations for the Kemper plant, which is located next to a mine for lignite, the dirtiest form of coal, always were ambitious; coal gasification never had been used to produce commercial electricity, according to climate experts.
  — Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Shell and Energy Transfer are working on an export terminal to complement existing gasification and import facilities – with a price tag of somewhere between $12 billion to $16 billion.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Furthermore, bioenergy will need to be utilized to create hydrogen through gasification to avoid carbon emissions that are associated with natural gas.
  — John Keppler, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Blue Hydrogen 1 Natural gas or coal is used to produce hydrogen through processes such as steam methane reforming, partial oxidation and coal gasification.
  — Giulia Petroni, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• After various small modifications at the $2.5 million hydrogen pilot production facility (which was built on a former coal gasification plant), the utility provider is now claiming success.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2023
• Other technologies — such as pyrolysis, liquefaction, and gasification — use thermochemistry to turn waste into energy.
  — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024