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Operational Expertise: The Eastman Advantage

Industrial Gasifcation ExpertiseEastman’s world-renowned chemists and engineers successfully operate the longest continuously producing gasification facility in America.

Eastman commercialized the first industrial gasification facility in America in 1983, and our gasification staff has a combined 600+ person years of scientific, engineering, and operational acumen, and an operational performance record that is unrivaled.

There’s no commodity more valuable than successful experience.

Here are just a few components or attributes of the nearly 25 years of intellectual capital and operational know-how that comprise Eastman's industrial gasification capabilities:

 

Eastman’s current industrial gasification facility is internationally recognized for its industry-leading operating performance.

 

Eastman operates its coal gasifiers at the highest syngas output per unit gasifier volume of any GE Energy designed solids-fed gasifier in the world.

 

Eastman is one of a handful of global companies having experience with multiple gasifiers and their integration.

 

Eastman engineers have had direct experience with start-up, trouble-shooting, and/or operations at over 20 gasification facilities around the world, including a number of petcoke and coal-fed gasifiers.

 

Eastman has built a tremendous support infrastructure for gasification during the past two decades that includes a large database of equipment reliability data and root cause failure analyses, gasification modeling and simulation capabilities, advanced process control and analysis, and coal, petcoke, and slag chemistry and characterization capabilities.
In addition, Eastman has over 80 years of experience in managing large integrated manufacturing sites.