Archive for the ‘Gasification’ Category

Inflation or Growth: A Crossroad in China

Posted in Alternative Energy, Gasification on Friday, December 2nd, 2011. No comments yet
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In this guest blog post, Emerson’s Douglas Morris addresses economic conditions in China and their impact on alternative energy investments, particularly coal to liquids processes. We’ve had a number of posts about the need for energy in emerging markets, particularly in China, to support a burgeoning middle class. The power industry and the emerging coal [...]

Low Carbon Economy and Technology Xinjiang Symposium

Posted in Alternative Energy, Gasification on Friday, October 21st, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Douglas Morris from the Alternative Energy team provides an update from a Low Carbon Economy and Technology in China: The 2nd annual Low Carbon Economy and Technology Xinjiang Symposium was held last week in Urumqi which is located in China’s Xinjiang province. I had the opportunity to speak at this meeting and to learn [...]

2011 Gasification Technologies Council Conference

Posted in Alternative Energy, Gasification on Friday, October 14th, 2011. One comment so far
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Emerson’s Alan Novak, who leads the alternative energy industry team, shares his thoughts from a recent gasification conference: The Gasification Technologies Council (GTC) annual conference was held this week in San Francisco, California USA. Emerson is a member of the GTC and I had the opportunity to attend and note a few interesting themes.The combination [...]

Alternative Fuels from Coal and Petroleum Coke Gasification

Posted in Alternative Energy, Gasification, Refining on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010. No comments yet
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As yesterdays’s Wall Street Journal points out in the article, Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea, oil companies have to look in increasingly difficult places to find energy. As energy producers look beyond oil and gas for other energy sources, alternative fuels have been playing a growing role. Right before the holidays, Emerson’s [...]

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Separation between Control and Safety Systems

Posted in Gasification, Oil & Gas, Safety, Technologies on Friday, August 24th, 2007. No comments yet

Earlier I mentioned Emerson’s Dean Taggart’s work with complex sequences in safety instrumented systems, based on an ongoing oil sands gasification project. John Kingston, from Emerson local business partner Spartan Controls, is presenting on this topic along with Emerson’s Chuck Miller at the upcoming ISA Expo 2007. I received a copy of the submitted paper [...]

Gasification Process Reduces Operating Costs For Oil Sands Producers

Posted in Gasification, Oil & Gas, Project Services on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007. No comments yet

One of the challenges in converting the Northern Alberta oil sands into usable energy is the tremendous amounts of natural gas consumed in the process. The supply and cost of this resource is a major cost factor for Oil Sands producers. OPTI Canada and Nexen are the first to introduce large-scale gasification into the bitumen [...]