How to Use gasification in a Sentence
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On Friday, the state approved Bowie’s request to nix the coal gasification plan.
—Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
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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
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The new process is based around gasification, which turns solid fuel into gas.
—Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
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An old gasification plant in West Terre Haute, Indiana is getting a new life.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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But the coal-gasification plant left the ground saturated with a hazardous byproduct, coal tar.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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Coal gasification, on the other hand, takes coal and turns it into something similar to natural gas.
—Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2018
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There is gasification, which uses garbage to make gas that can be used to generate electricity.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
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Sitharaman also announced the setting up of four pilot coal-gasification and coal-to-chemical projects.
—Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The liquid hydrogen will be produced in Latrobe Valley, Victoria through a brown coal gasification process.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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In fact, no other facilities in the country use this coal gasification technology.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2021
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But with natural gas so cheap, gasification plants aren’t competitive.
—Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another fossil fuel-intensive production method uses the gasification of coal.
—University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
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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
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