Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of converting a substance into gas, or producing gas from it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of converting into gas.

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  • noun Action of gasifying.
  • noun chemistry Process of transforming carbon-based materials into a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can serve as fuel.

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  • noun the process of changing into gas

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Examples

  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

    Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010

  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

    Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010

  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

    Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010

  • At considerably less than $200/barrel even coal gasification is profitable.

    Waldo Jaquith - Free-market fuel price solution? 2006

  • Then we have the coal gasification project, which is starting up next month and we call gasification project, which will startup about a year later.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • The year-long experiment is converting construction debris and garbage into useful, high-quality synthesis gas through a process called gasification, meaning breaking down materials into gases using intense heat.

    Sustainable: Waste Not: The Furnace Can Take It 2008

  • The year-long experiment is converting construction debris and garbage into useful, high-quality synthesis gas through a process called gasification, meaning breaking down materials into gases using intense heat.

    Sustainable: October 2008 2008

  • For coal, it's early, but there's still the good possibility of alternative methods of extraction of deep coal seams like gasification, which is being done around the world.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • But Mecklenburg County chairperson Jennifer Roberts said that the groups are not accurate when it comes to the process of gasification and explains that gasification occurs when "you burn at a much higher rate and therefore the residue the emissions are much less than a normal incinerator."

    WCNC - News - World 2010

  • Learn about a plant in Benson, Minnesota that burns biomass in a process called gasification to turn out a clean gas (synthetic) similar to the natural gas used to heat our homes and businesses.

    WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming 2010

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