An international leader in filtration and separation believes that the global energy challenge will be increasingly met through tried-and-tested gasification, thanks to rapidly evolving technology.
Porvair Filtration Group – recently honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade – insists that the combined effects of environmental accountability and the feedstock availability will continue to drive innovation across the gasification industry.
Other market drivers are the diminishing options of waste storage, and enhanced energy security needs – a chief concern of almost every sovereign nation.
Porvair states that this demand is driving a need for more efficient filtration of syngas produced from the gasification process. This is due to the char becoming finer and the feedstock becoming more complex – often a blend of coal with petroleum coke, coal with biomass, biomass and MSW, and the conversion of used automotive tyres.
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