Purdue University Researchers Undertake Synthetic Fuel Research to Decrease Oil Dependence

Purdue University researchers have developed a particular facility for studying precisely as to how biomass and coal get broken down in the reactors that are termed as gasifiers towards strengthening the synthetic fuel economy’s scientific foundations.

The major focus of this research is on enabling the production of synthetic fuel in significant quantities for the air transportation system of the U.S. towards reducing the country’s dependence upon petroleum used for transportation.

This research forms a part of the work towards developing a system for the purpose of producing huge volumes of synthetic fuel from resources such as coal, biomass or agricultural wastes which would get transformed into gas by making use of steam and later getting converted into liquid fuel.

The other aims of the research is in learning as to the ways of generating less CO₂ than the conventional processing methods for increasing the liquid fuel yield by way of incorporating hydrogen into a coal-and-biomass-processing reactor. Researchers are currently making use of the facility in learning as to how biomass and coal gasify under exposure to high pressure steam towards improving the efficiency level of this gasification process.