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Solid residues are versatile and allow for the extraction of syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen); biocrude (a precursor to liquid biofuels); or simply high-temperature heat for use in heavy industry and power generation.
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Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Researchers have succeeded in making artificial leaf devices that soak sunlight and carbon dioxide from air to produce hydrogen or syngas fuels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
In 2019, Cambridge chemistry professor Erwin Reisner and colleagues made the first such artificial leaf device, which produced syngas, followed in 2022 with a lightweight floating version of such a device.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
Researchers have, over the years, succeeded in making systems that produce hydrogen efficiently and have more recently devised a system that can make syngas, which is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that’s used to make other products like methanol.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
Gasifiers are essentially tanks that produce synthetic gas mixtures known as syngas.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
From there, researchers created different catalysts for the light absorber, which changed the final recycled product depending on which one was used, including CO, syngas, and glycolic acid.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2023
This is funneled into a second reactor, where the syngas is converted into kerosene molecules.
—Frank Swain, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2020
The third step is a gas-to-liquid synthesis unit, which converts the syngas into liquid hydrocarbons, usable as kerosene in jet fuel.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2022
Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Researchers have succeeded in making artificial leaf devices that soak sunlight and carbon dioxide from air to produce hydrogen or syngas fuels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
In 2019, Cambridge chemistry professor Erwin Reisner and colleagues made the first such artificial leaf device, which produced syngas, followed in 2022 with a lightweight floating version of such a device.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
Researchers have, over the years, succeeded in making systems that produce hydrogen efficiently and have more recently devised a system that can make syngas, which is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that’s used to make other products like methanol.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
Gasifiers are essentially tanks that produce synthetic gas mixtures known as syngas.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
From there, researchers created different catalysts for the light absorber, which changed the final recycled product depending on which one was used, including CO, syngas, and glycolic acid.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2023
This is funneled into a second reactor, where the syngas is converted into kerosene molecules.
—Frank Swain, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2020
The third step is a gas-to-liquid synthesis unit, which converts the syngas into liquid hydrocarbons, usable as kerosene in jet fuel.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2022
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First Known Use
1975, in the meaning defined above
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“Syngas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syngas. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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