Shell's gasification technique consists of partially combusting pulverized coal to yield carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, which combine to form synthetic natural gas.
Carbon monoxide is a gas which is odorless tasteless and colorless.
The carbon combines with the hydrogen in water to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas--the old "town gas"--but then the catalyst prompts a rejiggering of the atoms into methane (one carbon atom attached to four hydrogen atoms).
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas produced by the burning of fuels, including gas, oil, wood and coal.
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Over a period of 10 years, she lived with low levels of Carbon Monoxide, and the colourless odourless gas slowly poisoned her.
For important pollutants monitored by the EPA, natural gas power cuts carbon monoxide emissions by 81%, nitrogen oxide emissions by 80%, sulfur dioxide emissions by 99%, mercury emissions by 100%, and particulates by 99%.
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Carbon monoxide is produced when fuels such as gas, oil, charcoal, coal and wood do not burn completely.
There's nothing new about turning coal into gas--19th-century street lamps burned "town gas, " a dangerous mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, produced by blasting coal with steam.
Natural gas power emits merely 20% of the carbon monoxide of coal power, 20% of the nitrogen oxides of coal power, less than 1% of the sulfur dioxide of coal power, less than 1% of the particulate matter of coal power and less than 1% of the mercury of coal power.
The proposals would also enable the gas distribution companies to connect around 80, 000 "poor fuel households" to the gas network for the first time, and pay for carbon monoxide awareness programmes.
The Health and Safety Executive are so concerned about the carbon monoxide death toll and poisoning incidents that they're conducting a complete review of the gas industry, and how its safety is policed.
Using gas cookers, or burning candles, for example, both result in indoor levels of carbon monoxide and particulate matter that are just as high as those to be found outside, amid heavy traffic.
The spending on the gas network will also finance spending by the energy firms on raising public awareness about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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