ConocoPhillips: Improving for the Future with Solids Gasification

As part of its ongoing research and development activity, ConocoPhillips collaborates with Rose-Hulman Ventures to develop improvements in energy efficiency relating to solids gasification technology. Its E-GasTM Technology for gasification applications is a clean and efficient commercial process for converting coal or petroleum coke into a hydrogen rich synthesis gas, ideally suited for electrical power and steam generation, pure hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, substitute natural gas, or other chemicals in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. Gasification is a process to obtain energy from coal or petroleum coke with significantly lower emissions than typically associated with coal-fired power plants.

Under the direction of David Miller, Ph.D., associate professor of chemical engineering at Rose-Hulman, students are creating complex computer models and conducting laboratory experiments to help ConocoPhillips improve the operation of existing plants and provide innovations to increase the efficiency of future plants. Eight chemical engineering and chemistry student interns contribute the technical expertise to this sophisticated and groundbreaking process. ConocoPhillips is an integrated international energy company that responsibly delivers energy to the world. The company offers its E-GasTM Technology for licensing globally.