Great hopes are pinned on IGCC as a highly efficient and low polluting emissions technology. Coal Gasification can also be fueled by materials that are not otherwise useful fuels, such as biomass or organic waste. Heating the coal under controlled conditions with insufficient air to provide complete combustion produces a gaseous fuel known as syngas, which is also known as town gas.
Coal has been gasified ever since the industrial revolution to produce "town gas". As we all know using gas as a fuel for so many jobs is vastly more controllable and vastly preferable to using coal. Coal Gasification technology is at the forefront in the efforts to develop alternatives for conventional furnaces. It is of particular interest because it offers an opportunity to use the product fuel gas in integrated gasification combined-cycle electric power generation (IGCC).
It also solves many worries about reducing air quality. This is because the high temperature conversion reaction essential to the process also refines out corrosive ash elements such as chloride and potassium, allowing clean gas production. Coal Gasification can also be fueled by materials that are not otherwise useful fuels, such as biomass or organic waste.
