Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 299-304Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.02.032
Keywords
Syngas; Synthesis gas; Pipelines; Networks; Carbon footprint
Funding
- Regional Development Agency for North East England (One Northeast)
- Tees Valley Industrial Programme for exploring the regional implications
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G059284/1, EP/K039377/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G059284/1, EP/K039377/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper makes a case for building syngas networks as a means of contributing to the reduction of industrial carbon footprints. After exploring historic and conventional approaches to producing syngas (or synthesis gas) from fossil fuels on increasingly large scales, the paper looks at ways of producing it from renewable sources and from surplus resource (or waste) from industrial, domestic, urban and agricultural systems. The many ways of converting syngas into power, industrial heat, fuels, chemical feedstocks and chemical products are then outlined along with the associated syngas purification requirements. Some of the processes involved provide an opportunity for cost-effective capture and storage of CO2. Pathways through this range of possibilities that enable a net reduction in energy footprint or in CO2 emissions are identified and exemplified. Recognising that those opportunities are likely to involve industrial facilities that are distributed spatially within a geographic area, the case for building an interconnecting syngas network is explored. Issues surrounding sizing the network, timing its growth, determining ownership and access arrangements, and planning/regulatory hurdles are found to be similar to the analogous case of building an industrial CO2 network, with the added complication that the term syngas tends to be used to cover a fairly wide range of gas compositions. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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