Porvair Filtration Group 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.
Filter media must therefore evolve to be more surface retentive, mechanically robust, permeable and with enhanced chemical inertness and thermal stability.
Porvair’s Gasification Business Manager, Andy Bevis, said: “Porvair is committed to developing technology to help to realise new benefits to the gasification industry, and believes there is a huge opportunity in this growing global market.
“Today’s advanced gasification technologies incorporate significant improvements over those early versions; greater flexibility, vastly increased scale, and new applications are driving gasification technologies to gain more prominence than ever before.
“Porvair has been working on gasification filtration technology for 20 years, and is excited to be involved in the industry’s development. With increased feedstock complexity, filtration technology must keep pace with industry demands.
Porvair Filtration Group will be exhibiting at the Gasification Technologies Conference, October 11-14th 2015, Colorado Springs, CO, on booths 1-2.
