In The Face Of Rising Natural Gas Demand, Gasification Technologies Can Help U.S. Meet Its Energy Needs, Says James Childress, Executive Director of the Gasification Technologies Council (GTC)

James Childress, Executive Director of the Gasification Technologies Council (GTC) testifies in foreground of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation. Childress says gasification technologies can advice U.S. accommodated its activity needs, but that adequation in accessible action is needed. The EIA anticipation is acutely unrealistic - atramentous use will not acceleration beneath accepted affairs and gas absolutely will not decline Industrial gasification offers a solution, through plants gasifying atramentous or petroleum coke to aftermath chemicals, fertilizers, plastics or acting accustomed gas (SNG) but the accessible action and political altitude (surrounding gasification) is not reassuring. We do accept that atramentous gasification will play a above role in our activity future The amount one charge for industry and the banking association is adequation in accessible policy

Washington, DC -- With action to coal-burning ability plants aggressive to put astringent amount and accumulation pressures on accustomed gas, gasification technologies can advice the United States accommodated its activity needs in environmentally and economically complete ways, a Senate subcommittee was told Wednesday by Gasification Technologies Council (GTC) Executive Director James Childress.

In affidavit delivered to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation, GTC's Childress acknowledged the Energy Information Administration predictions that coal's use in ability bearing will access while accustomed gas use declines. "The EIA anticipation is acutely unrealistic - atramentous use will not acceleration beneath accepted affairs and gas absolutely will not decline," he told lawmakers. The acceleration in accustomed gas demand, while U.S. assembly charcoal about flat, will accept a astringent appulse on the gas prices paid by the actinic and fertilizer industries that depend on accustomed gas as a feedstock, on manufacturers who use accustomed gas as a fuel, and on homeowners.

"Industrial gasification offers a solution, through plants gasifying atramentous or petroleum coke to aftermath chemicals, fertilizers, plastics or acting accustomed gas (SNG)," Childress declared in his testimony. SNG can supplement the U.S. accustomed gas accumulation and advice affluence amount and accumulation pressures, "but the accessible action and political altitude (surrounding gasification) is not reassuring."

Gasification is a commercially accurate accomplishment process acclimated on a all-around calibration for 50 years. It converts low-value abstracts such as coal, petroleum coke, and biomass into top amount articles and electricity. The technologies action decidedly bargain ecology emissions, and the everyman amount advantage for capturing CO2 from fossil-fuel-based ability plants. "We do accept that atramentous gasification will play a above role in our activity future," arch technology officer, of the National Energy Technology Laboratory Joseph Strakey told the committee.

Of the 140 gasification accessories operating in the world, 19 are in the United States. The a lot of accelerated advance in gasification is in China, which has a civic action to displace use of oil and gas in its actinic and fertilizer industries through added use of atramentous gasification. China is aswell embarking on a affairs to use gasification to aftermath acting accustomed gas from atramentous for use in its cities, which are adversity from air abuse from the use of atramentous for home heating and cooking.

Childress categorical three proposals for Congressional action:
 

A affairs to authenticate on a bartering calibration assorted gasification ability plants with carbon abduction and aloofness capability. Policies that admit and accolade automated gasification's adeptness to action ample scale, abreast appellation opportunities for carbon abduction at lower costs. A compatible civic action framework acclamation adjustment of CO2 emissions, including incentives and accountability apology for aboriginal adopters. "The amount one charge for industry and the banking association is adequation in accessible policy," Childress told the subcommittee.
Gasification Technologies Council affiliate companies are complex in gasification projects- as bulb owners, technology suppliers, or equipment/service suppliers - that anniversary for added than 95 percent of apple gasification capacity. For added advice amuse see www.gasification.org.