Eastman’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: |
CEO Jim Rogers and production staff members discuss gasification plant design.
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Eastman’s current industrial gasification facility is internationally recognized for its industry-leading operating performance.
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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. |
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Eastman is one of a handful of global companies having experience with multiple gasifiers and their integration.
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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. |
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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. |
