Technology Overview

Industrial gasification is a state-of-the-art process utilizing coal, petroleum coke, and other U.S.-based raw materials, diminishing the effects on the US chemical industry from the price volatility of foreign oil and natural gas and reducing our dependence on them.

Industrial gasification is a versatile, proven, and efficient process that Eastman has profitably employed for more than two decades.

At its most basic level, industrial gasification converts coal, petroleum coke, and a wide variety of carbon-containing feedstocks into a synthesis gas or “syngas."

This syngas is a valuable and versatile raw material that can be converted into a multitude of products such as chemicals, fertilizers, transportation fuels, synthetic natural gas and hydrogen, as well as clean energy.

How does it work?

Industrial gasification - How does it work?
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Start with the most common source materials -- coal, petroleum coke, or biomass. These source materials, or feedstocks, are placed in a state-of-the-art gasifier along with water and oxygen (or air) at high pressures (up to 1200 psig) and temperatures (up to 2600º F) to produce raw syngas. Then sulfur, carbon dioxide and other contaminants are removed to produce a valuable new raw material or a clean-burning fuel that is composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.