How to Use gasification in a Sentence

gasification

noun
  • There’s also the tire-shredding plant and the wood gasification plant.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
  • The new process is based around gasification, which turns solid fuel into gas.
    — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • But the coal-gasification plant left the ground saturated with a hazardous byproduct, coal tar.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • On Friday, the state approved Bowie’s request to nix the coal gasification plan.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • There is gasification, which uses garbage to make gas that can be used to generate electricity.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Coal gasification, on the other hand, takes coal and turns it into something similar to natural gas.
    — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2018
  • That is a strategy that’s used in certain places, gasification of waste, municipal waste.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Kammen says a gasification facility would be even more expensive than the coal plant and sees it as even less practical.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2016
  • Sitharaman also announced the setting up of four pilot coal-gasification and coal-to-chemical projects.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Diesel from the Dale plant wouldn't be competing with natural gas in the same way coal gasification does, and in this case ratepayers are not taking on the risk.
    — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
  • An old gasification plant in West Terre Haute, Indiana is getting a new life.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • But with natural gas so cheap, gasification plants aren’t competitive.
    — Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • For more than three decades, gasification technology has promised a smarter conversion of coal to electricity.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2012
  • The solvents will break down polymers into shorter chains, much like pyrolysis and gasification do, to then be reformed into new plastic.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2021
  • The process, called coal-to-gas or coal gasification, has been criticized by Chinese and foreign scholars and policy makers.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
  • In fact, no other facilities in the country use this coal gasification technology.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2021
  • After about a year of gasifying coal, the plant was ordered to switch to natural gas because the electricity it coal gasification produced was too expensive.
    — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The basic technology for turning coal into other fuels, known as gasification, has been around since the 1920s.
    — Michael Lemonick, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2010
  • The liquid hydrogen will be produced in Latrobe Valley, Victoria through a brown coal gasification process.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Another way to convert waste to energy is through gasification, a process that melts plastics at very high temperatures in the near-absence of oxygen (which means toxins like dioxins and furans aren’t formed).
    — Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Another fossil fuel-intensive production method uses the gasification of coal.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The plants use pyrolysis, gasification or other methods to break down mixed-plastic waste into synthetic fuel, gas, and other products, using very high heat in chambers with little to no oxygen.
    — The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • FerroSilva’s method uses biomass gasification combined with carbon capture and utilization.
    — Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Plastic-to-fuel conversion involves pyrolysis or gasification, both of which use heat and chemical processes to break down plastic waste into products that are turned into fuels.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Furthermore, bioenergy will need to be utilized to create hydrogen through gasification to avoid carbon emissions that are associated with natural gas.
    — John Keppler, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The bottom row of primary jets (7) are used not to fuel the fire but rather to induce a process called gasification, which converts the fuel in the wood into a gaseous form that burns more efficiently than burning the wood directly.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2017
  • With the Lamppa furnace, a gasification chamber keeps a minimum temperature of around 1,000 degrees to burn all those gases.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
  • To provide power for the woolen mill, the Broad Brook Company operated a coal gasification plant on the site, which resulted in contamination.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 4 May 2021
  • Solar home systems, hydro turbines, and gasification powered by rice husks—a resource that is abundantly available in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta—are also used to meet their energy needs.
    — Keith Rabin, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2015
  • But Daryl Lamppa's most innovative product is the one with the new patent — the wood-burning gasification furnace that heats homes, and which has a new tax credit to shave nearly $1,500 off the price.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021

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