Appendix A

Companion Website

For those interested in following up some of the ideas expressed in this book, we
have set up a website, www.gasification.higman.de, which includes both programs
for typical gasification calculations and a literature data bank. The content of the
website at the time of going to press of this book covers the following.

Computer programs
Gasify.exe performs calculations for gasification for coal, oil and natural gas. It is
an equilibrium calculation based on the information contained in Chapter 2. There
is a wide selection of calculation modes, such as fixed reactant quantities with vari-
able gasification temperature, fixed gasification temperature with variable oxygen
demand, and others.

Proxult.exe will convert proximate and ultimate coal analyses between as received
(ar), moisture free (mf), ash free (af) and moisture and ash free (maf) bases,
as described in section 4.1. Further, LHV and HHV on any basis may be converted
into each other. In the absence of heat of combustion data, the heating value will be
generated using the proximate and ultimate analyses.

Heatloss.exe will calculate the loss of heat in a membrane wall under different inter-
nal conditions (slagging/non-slagging) using the criteria described in section 6.4.

Quench.exe provides a means of back-calculating the temperature at which

the CO shift reaction and the CO2 methane reforming reaction have frozen during
cooling, as described in section 6.8.

Viscos.exe estimates the viscosity of residual oil fractions, as described in

section 4.2.1.

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All these programs are executable files and can be downloaded for use by owners
of this book. Help files include a fuller description of the theoretical background
than contained in the book.

Literature data bank

The literature databank gaslit.mdb contains over 1000 entries on the topic of gasi-
fication, including all the literature cited in this book. It includes titles, authors
and keywords for all papers presented at the Gasification Technologies Council
Conferences since 1998, all the IChemE Gasification Conferences, and a number of
other important sources not normally accessible to non-participants.
The database includes a keyword-based search facility, with up to six specified
keywords per article. Both gasification technology and project name can be speci-
fied independently of the keyword.
A simplified version of the database in Excel format gaslit.xls is downloadable
for those who cannot run Microsoft Access.

Legal note
The companion website will be maintained for at least 1 year after the initial publi-
cation of this book. No guarantee can be made for its continued availability thereafter.
The authors have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and usability of these
programs and any others that may be included on the website, but do not assume
any legal liability whatsoever for the consequences of their use.

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